Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hasty, typically servile agreement with another's opinions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of assenting; especially, obsequious assent to the opinion of another; flattery; adulation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Insincere orobsequious assent ;hypocritical or pretendedconcurrence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted.
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They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted.
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They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted.
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Whose favours, because they be in high authority with their prince, by assentation and flattery they labour to obtain.
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I trust, no importunate advocacy or tedious assentation.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory.
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There was an air of assentation and reverence in his demeanor, which, perhaps, grew out of the domestic discipline of his spouse, a buxom dame with the heart of a lioness.
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Passively she was about uttering her assentation, when the door of the room was thrown open, and two men entered.
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The negroes, like all other dependants, are marked by an abundant spirit of assentation.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
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