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Definitions
Etymologies
- Middle English assenten, from Old French assentir, from Latin assentārī : ad-, ad- + sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“It carries its own light and evidence with it, and needs no other proof: he that understands the terms assents to it for its own sake or else nothing will ever be able to prevail with him to do it.”
“Christ is no hard master, who expects to reap in assents where he has not sown in arguments.”
“The third topic concerns the assents, which is related to the things which are persuasive and attractive.”
“Rhonda challenged herself on slabs of the like she had never faced before and Craig … well he made his first assents ever and truly mastered his fears as he enjoyed some fabulous climbs.”
“The IMF staff report also said it assents to an Irish request to bring forward some of the IMF program funding in late 2012 to earlier in the year because of increased turmoil in Europe's bond markets.”
“Oliver asks his estranged father for money; his father assumes he's gotten some girl "in trouble," and rather than admit his enduring love for his wife, "the wrong girl," Oliver assents.”
“And then, as the dying boy insists Daisy wed him so he can continue to look after her once he's gone to which his dear father assents, and their scenes together wrecked me, the lowly kitchen maid reluctantly agrees, bullied along the way by Mrs. Patmore.”
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“And he asks her to marry him, to which Megan happily assents as Don places Anna's ring on her finger.”
“On the other, he's worried that if he assents to the quid Brewer has proposed for his pro quo, kids living in Kanab, a stone's throw from the Arizona border, will begin staggering off Coyote Buttes.”
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“Once Mr. Bernanke assents to the double-dip recession scenario, he will fight deflation by any means necessary.”
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