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Definition of Consent
1. Noun. Permission to do something. "He indicated his consent"
2. Verb. Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to. "I go for this resolution"
Specialized synonyms: Give, Agree, Settle, Contract In, Allow, Countenance, Let, Permit, Buckle Under, Give In, Knuckle Under, Succumb, Yield, Take In Charge, Undertake
Generic synonyms: React, Respond
Derivative terms: Acceptation, Acceptation
Antonyms: Refuse
Definition of Consent
1. v. i. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
2. v. t. To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.
3. n. Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.
Definition of Consent
1. Verb. (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive medicine) To cause to sign a consent form. ¹
3. Noun. Voluntary agreement or permission ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consent
1. to permit or approve [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consent
Literary usage of Consent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Previous consent and Settlement not dispensed with, though under favorable
circumstances : the treaty with consent of the two acting trustees, ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Of the transference of property by consent. SECT. However useful, or even necessary,
the stability of possession •-—.— may be to human society, ..."
3. Annual Report (1912)
"openings, it would seem to me hardly a practical thing that the consent of the
contractor or his representative should he secured before openings are made. ..."
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