acquiescence

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  1. noun Passive assent or agreement without protest.
  2. noun The state of being acquiescent.

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  • He supposed that his acquiescence was a sign of his declining standards. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • I had never dreamed of coming into direct contact with such perversions The others surrounded us, coaxing the man to come, for my acquiescence was taken as a matter of course. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
  • The administration's acquiescence, then, signaled not that Ayers 'ideas merited free-speech protection (which they already have) but that his ideas merited promulgation on FSU's dime. —  YID With LID
  • Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's recent announcement of a cloud computing operating system is the ultimate sign of acquiescence, and a sign that the once-mighty Microsoft no longer sets the standard. —  Icrontic
  • Given Abbas's acquiescence, the very legitimacy of the PA now depends on the continuation of the talks, regardless of whether progress is made or not. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
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  1. = Spanish aquiescencia = Italian acquiescenza, from Latin as if *acquiescentia, from acquiescen(t-)s, acquiescent: see acquiescent.
 

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