assented

Meanings

• verb

  agreed to or approved something, especially a law or treaty

  - "The Senate has assented to the new bill."
  - "After much debate, the parties finally assented to the terms of the agreement."

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Pronunciation

1. /əˈsɛntɪd/
   
   
   
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Synonyms

affirm , allow , astipulate , aver , soothe , stipulate , consent

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with assented
assentment , sentiment

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Variants

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assent , assented , assenter , assenters , assenting , assentor , assentors , assents

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Etymology

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From Old French assentir ‘consent, agree’, from asse ‘together’ + sentir ‘feel’

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Trivia

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1. Assent is an anagram of the word tenas, which means ‘to hold’ in Latin.

2. Assent was used as a legal term in Middle English as early as the 14th century.

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Related Concepts

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1. consent: The act of agreeing or giving permission for something to happen

2. approval: The act of expressing favorable opinion or sanctioning something

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Quotes

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1. One day I arrived at class to discuss some abolition treaties written during the early Romantic period. An African American woman, Stephanie, was introduced to me by one of my students. Stephanie asked if she could sit in on the class, and I of course "assented".

   - Laura Mandell,{it}Profession{/it},1997

2. Christopher, on his end, is supposed to have "assented" to and even welcomed this public confirmation of his own negligibility, not that foreign diplomats needed any.

   - Tom Carson,{it}Village Voice{/it},19 July 1994

3. Fearing that without a new batch of social measures the country would slip away from him, Roosevelt "assented"—sometimes rather grudgingly—to proposals that in sum make up the semi-welfare state under which we have lived this past half century.

   - Irving Howe,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},28 Sept.1986

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Culture

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Assented is often used in legal and political contexts to refer to the act of giving consent or approval to something.

How to Memorize "assented"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the act of nodding in agreement or signing a document to represent the concept of assenting.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word assent with the idea of agreement or approval.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each word in the phrase ‘Agreement Signs Treaties Endlessly’ to represent the concept of assenting.

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