assent

assent

See also: -assent

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

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

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

to agree, give approval

Bulgarian: одобрявам (bg) (odobrjavam), съгласявам се (sǎglasjavam se) Finnish: suostua (fi), myöntää (fi) French: assentir (fr) Italian: assentire (it) 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.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• assentor

Translations

agreement, act of agreeing

Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) (sǎglasie), одобрение (bg) (odobrenie) Finnish: suostumus (fi), myöntymys French: assentiment (fr) m Gallurese: cunsènsu Italian: assenso Maori: āetanga, whakaaetanga Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: samtykke (no) n Norwegian Nynorsk: samtykkje n

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)

Anagrams

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

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Latin

Verb

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assō