Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who consents.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective One who consents.

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  • noun one who consents

Etymologies

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to consent + -er

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Examples

  • Consent necessarily contemplates that the "consenter" is aware that he is consenting to intercourse; if he or she believes the consent is for something else, then there is no consent.

    FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles 2010

  • Ai stop nao making consenter.. eber wider circles round haus.

    i battle budy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Because the Fourth Amendment only prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures," permission given by a third party who lacks the authority to consent will nevertheless legitimize a warrantless search if the consenter has "apparent authority," meaning that the police reasonably believed that the person had actual authority to control or use the property.

    Hack My Son's Computer, Please 2007

  • Because the Fourth Amendment only prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures," permission given by a third party who lacks the authority to consent will nevertheless legitimize a warrantless search if the consenter has "apparent authority," meaning that the police reasonably believed that the person had actual authority to control or use the property.

    Hack My Son's Computer, Please 2007

  • She's the great consenter -- always in the hands of friends, like an American politician.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • His instance was without a rival since the ascension, in point of the greatness of the sin and the greatness of the mercy: that the consenter to Stephen, the proto-martyr's death, should be the successor of the same!

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Given the active villain and the passive consenter, and they are sure to meet.

    Blind Love Wilkie Collins 1856

  • And now I began to call again time that was spent; wishing a thousand times twice told, that the day was yet to come when I should be tempted to such a sin; concluding with great indignation, both against my heart, and all assaults, how I would rather have been torn in pieces, than be found a consenter thereto.

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 1666

  • And now I began to call again time that was spent; wishing a thousand times twice told, that the day was yet to come when I should be tempted to such a sin; concluding with great indignation, both against my heart, and all assaults, how I would rather have been torn in pieces, than be found a consenter thereto.

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners John Bunyan 1658

  • May 31st, 2008 at 10: 05 pm national flood insurance … consenter? deformity steward hallways …

    MVN 2008

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