assent

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• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophone: ascent

Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
   • Macaulay

     The princess assented to all that was suggested.

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.
   • Bible, Acts xxiv. 9

     And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

• assentor

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assō