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TACIT CONSENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tacit consent mean?
• TACIT CONSENT (noun)
The noun TACIT CONSENT has 1 sense:
1. (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing
Familiarity information: TACIT CONSENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
connivance; secret approval; tacit consent
Hypernyms ("tacit consent" is a kind of...):
approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Context examples
He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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