ASSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assent mean? 

• ASSENT (noun)
  The noun ASSENT has 1 sense:

1. agreement with a statement or proposal to do something

  Familiarity information: ASSENT used as a noun is very rare.

• ASSENT (verb)
  The verb ASSENT has 1 sense:

1. to agree or express agreement

  Familiarity information: ASSENT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

acquiescence; assent

Context example:

a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly

Hypernyms ("assent" is a kind of...):

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assent"):

acceptance ((contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract))

conceding; concession; yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)

Derivation:

assent (to agree or express agreement)

• ASSENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they assent    ... he / she / it assents   
Past simple: assented   
Past participle: assented   
-ing form: assenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To agree or express agreement

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accede; acquiesce; assent

Context example:

The Maestro assented to the request for an encore

Hypernyms (to "assent" is one way to...):

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "assent"):

connive (encourage or assent to illegally or criminally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

dissent (withhold assent)

Derivation:

assent (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)

assenter (a person who assents)

assentient (expressing agreement or consent)

 Context examples 

He assented, and prepared to accompany me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar relations.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I nodded, for I thought it better to assent, though I did not quite understand his dialect.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ruth pressed her mother's hand in assent, feeling that she really did understand, though her conception was of something vague, remote, and terrible that was beyond the scope of imagination.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She gave a quick nod of assent just as the other two came up.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Long enough and heavy enough for anything on two legs,” said Jackson, and the professionals all murmured their assent.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With your assent, I will put one or two of these papers in my pocket, in case they should bear upon our future inquiry.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"It be true," Ebbits assented gravely. "And always did he return to sit by the fire and hunger for yet other and unknown far places."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

(looking round with the most good-humoured dependence on every body's assent)—Do not you all think I shall?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She assented to it all rather by look than word.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)