acquiesce

• Frederic appeared about to acquiesce, and then substituted vague promises for present assent to the demands. —  Charles the Bold
• The rest of the Bench had to acquiesce, and the tailor was fined one shilling. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• '[19] Of all men living or dead, this is the one whom it is most impossible to think of as acquiescing in such an easy relation to those around him, or even as attempting so to acquiesce--at least without inward self-question and torture. —  John Knox
• If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease. —  Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
• There is no alternative for continuing the government but acquiescence on the one side or the other If the minority will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which, in turn, will ruin and divide them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such a minority. —  Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings

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