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Definition of Assent

1. Noun. Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something. "A murmur of acquiescence from the assembly"

2. Verb. To agree or express agreement. "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore"

Definition of Assent

1. v. t. To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.

2. n. The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.

Definition of Assent

1. Verb. To agree to, give approval to. ¹

2. Noun. agreement, act of agreeing ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Assent

1. to express agreement [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Literary usage of Assent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"OF WRONG assent, OR ERROR1. BOOK Iv. 1. KNOWLEDGE being to be had only of visible ... a mistake of • our judgment giving assent to that which is not true. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We are accustomed to assent to propositions that we cannot be said to know, on account of many different causes. Some of them are often inadequate and even ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"So that the fact that such assent is not recited in the title paper presented in evidence raises no presumption that it was ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"Yet there is a way in which the child can give an indirect assent even to a proposition, ... He cannot indeed in that case assent to the proposition itself, ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"If the king refuses his assent, it is in the gentle language of "le roy s' avisera,31 the king will advise upon it." "When a bill of supply is passed, ..."

6. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 by United States President (1897)
"It will he seen that by this clause the directors are invested with the fullest power to establish a branch in any State which has yielded its assent; ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Roger Meeson, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1843)
"He ought to have ' * informed them what constituted, in point of law, an assent ELLIOTT by an executor to a bequest, and to have left it to them to ELLIOTT. ..."

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