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  • noun Plural form of consent.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consent.

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Examples

  • The honour of the family is safe only till this adventuress consents, _consents_ to accept his hand!

    A Chair on the Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1901

  • If the next of kin consents, after attempts to resuscitate the decedent have failed they'll keep the "potential organ donor" on a ventilator and rush him or her to Bellevue Medical Center to remove the organs.

    The FDNY Is Looking To Harvest Organs Faster With New Vehicle The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • If the next of kin consents, after attempts to resuscitate the decedent have failed they'll keep the "potential organ donor" on a ventilator and rush him or her to Bellevue Medical Center to remove the organs.

    The FDNY Is Looking To Harvest Organs Faster With New Vehicle Gothamist 2010

  • If the next of kin consents, after attempts to resuscitate the decedent have failed they'll keep the "potential organ donor" on a ventilator and rush him or her to Bellevue Medical Center to remove the organs.

    The FDNY Is Looking To Harvest Organs Faster With New Vehicle Gothamist 2010

  • A parent who initiates sex with a child - even if the child is grown, and even if he or she eventually "consents" - is taking advantage of the parent-child bond, a bond that could easily make the child feel it's not okay to say no.

    Jezebel 2010

  • There is a point beyond which only the reader meaningfully or consciously consents, which is what makes it a fantasy for the reader to enjoy, even as the heroine might not.

    Read Enough Romances and Rape Is No Longer Rape 2007

  • There is a point beyond which only the reader meaningfully or consciously consents, which is what makes it a fantasy for the reader to enjoy, even as the heroine might not.

    Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » Read Enough Romances and Rape Is No Longer Rape » Print 2007

  • It is, of course, one of the great paradoxes that, at the same time that they are giving them a moratorium to suspend resource consent processing, in particular, catchments, the main reason given for sacked Environment Canterbury is that it took too long to process resource consents, which is one of the great paradoxes of it.

    All content anne.heins 2010

  • Is there any doubt that, even if the younger partner "consents," this is statutory rape because she's a minor and, by definition, under the age of consent?

    Thelma Adams: Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse? 2009

  • I am not sure what Kazin intends by "consents" here.

    The Plot Thickens Glassco, David 1980

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