CONSENTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consenting mean? 

• CONSENTING (adjective)
  The adjective CONSENTING has 1 sense:

1. having given consent

  Familiarity information: CONSENTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSENTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having given consent

Context example:

consenting adults

Similar:

willing (disposed or inclined toward)

 Context examples 

“It is impossible,” said she, “for parents to be more kind, or more desirous of their children's happiness; I have no doubt of their consenting immediately.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He readily consenting, I wrote to Dora, saying I would bring him home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers obtained synovial fluid from consenting osteoarthritis patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and from post-mortem donors with no known joint disease.

(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)

His consenting to marry her is a proof, I will believe, that he is come to a right way of thinking.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I say scarcely voluntary, for it seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While I, to blind the world to our engagement, was behaving one hour with objectionable particularity to another woman, was she to be consenting the next to a proposal which might have made every previous caution useless?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is not my intention, he continued reading on, to enter on a detailed list, within the compass of the present epistle (though it is ready elsewhere), of the various malpractices of a minor nature, affecting the individual whom I have denominated Mr. W., to which I have been a tacitly consenting party.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We must look to her one fault, and remember that she had done a wrong thing in consenting to the engagement, to bear that she should have been in such a state of punishment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Norwood was many miles too near, and we reached it many hours too soon; but Mr. Spenlow came to himself a little short of it, and said, You must come in, Copperfield, and rest! and I consenting, we had sandwiches and wine-and-water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Little Em'ly consenting, and allowing me to kiss her, I became desperate; informing her, I recollect, that I never could love another, and that I was prepared to shed the blood of anybody who should aspire to her affections.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)