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assenting

Meanings
  • Verb

    To agree or consent to something.

    - "I assent to your proposal."
    - "The board unanimously assents to the new policy."
  • Verb

    To give assent or approval.

    - "The king's signature was required to assent to the bill."
    - "She assents to your request."
Synonyms

affirm , allow , astipulate , aver , soothe , stipulate , consent
Rhymes
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assent , consent , present , lent , ment , intent , bent , lenten , sent , tent , tentative , relent , content , extent , intent , intentive , relentless , resent
Variants
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assent , assented , assenter , assenters , assenting , assentor , assentors , assents
Forms
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assents, assenting, assented, assents

Etymology
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From the Old French word 'assentir', meaning 'to agree' or 'to cause to agree'.

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  1. Assenting is an anagram of 'tennis set'.

  2. In some legal contexts, assent is referred to as 'consent'.

  3. Assenting is the opposite of 'dissenting'.

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  1. Consent: The act of agreeing to something or allowing something to happen.

  2. Agreement: A mutual understanding or arrangement between parties.

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
Culture
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Assenting has been used in various literary works, such as Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. In both works, the term is used to describe the act of giving consent or approval.

How to Memorize "assenting"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize the act of nodding your head in agreement or signing a document to give assent.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'assent' with the idea of agreement or consent.

  3. mnemonics

    - Remember that 'assent' starts with the letter 'a' and is related to the idea of agreement or approval.

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