assent

See also: -assent

English

Etymology

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To agree to a proposal.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The princess assented to all that was suggested.

   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated:

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:9:

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• assenter
• assentingly
• assentive
• assentment
• nonassenting
• unassenting

 

Related terms

Category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sent- (feel) not found

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Translations

to agree, give approval

• Bulgarian: одобрявам (bg) (odobrjavam), съгласявам се (sǎglasjavam se)
• Czech: souhlasit (cs), dát souhlas pf, schválit (cs) pf
• Finnish: suostua (fi), myöntää (fi)
• French: assentir (fr)
• Italian: assentire (it)
• Latin: assentiō
• Maori: whakakoia, whakaae, āe
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: samtykke (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: samtykkje

• Occitan: assentir (oc)
• Portuguese: assentir (pt)
• Quechua: añiy, huñiy
• Russian: одобря́ть (ru) (odobrjátʹ), соглаша́ться (ru) (soglašátʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: pristanak (sh) m, odobrenje (sh) n
• Slovak: súhlasiť
• Spanish: asentir (es), consentir (es)
• Swedish: samtycka (sv)
• Turkish: kabul etmek (tr), onaylamak (tr), rıza göstermek (tr)

Noun

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

   • 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:

     A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

   • 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 128:

     He lowered his head in assent.

2. (countable, property law) A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• disassent
• nonassent
• royal assent

 

Related terms

• assentor

Translations

agreement, act of agreeing

• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) (sǎglasie), одобрение (bg) (odobrenie)
• Czech: souhlas (cs) m, schválení n
• Finnish: suostumus (fi), myöntymys
• French: assentiment (fr) m
• Gallurese: cunsènsu
• Italian: assenso (it)
• Latin: assensio f
• Maori: āetanga, whakaaetanga
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: samtykke (no) n

  Norwegian Nynorsk: samtykkje n

• Polish: sankcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: assentimento (pt) m, sanção (pt) f
• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), одобре́ние (ru) n (odobrénije), утвержде́ние (ru) n (utverždénije)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: approvatzioni

• Sassarese: assensu
• Scottish Gaelic: aonta m
• Spanish: asentimiento (es) m
• Swedish: samtycke (sv)
• Turkish: kabul (tr), onay (tr)
• Welsh: cydsyniad m

Anagrams

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

Latin

Verb

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assō