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ASSENTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does assenting mean?
• ASSENTING (noun)
The noun ASSENTING has 1 sense:
1. agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
Familiarity information: ASSENTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
accession; assenting
Context example:
assenting to the Congressional determination
Hypernyms ("assenting" is a kind of...):
agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
Context examples
She received no other answer, than an artificial, assenting smile, followed by a contemptuous glance, as he turned away, which Anne perfectly knew the meaning of.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The general listened with assenting gratitude; and it seemed as if his own estimation of Northanger had waited unfixed till that hour.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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