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Consent   /kənsˈɛnt/   Listen
Consent

noun
1.
Permission to do something.
verb
(past & past part. consented; pres. part. consenting)
1.
Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to.  Synonyms: accept, go for.  "I go for this resolution"  Antonym: refuse.



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"Consent" Quotes from Famous Books



... free to proceed without his consent, wished they had not entered into an agreement with "the associates of the late Dr. Bray", but under the circumstances felt themselves bound to give the work at Purisburg a fair trial. In December, Schulius went to Purisburg to look over the ...
— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries
... to consent to be my wife before I leave Rashleigh," he continued. "I know it will be the best and easiest plan if I can ...
— A Mad Love • Bertha M. Clay
... and even administer the laws to which they were all bound to submit, could not command the secular obedience of rude clans, or, with any prospect of success, lead them to battle against an enemy practised in all the stratagems of war. The people, therefore, demanded the consent of Samuel to a change in the structure of their government, that they might have a king, not only to preside over their civil affairs, but also to go out before them and ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... even less fluently than she wrote it, our conversation was necessarily in French. In this sweet tongue, so adapted to passion, I gave loose to the impetuous enthusiasm of my nature, and, with all the eloquence I could command, besought her to consent to an immediate marriage. ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 3 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... death. Oliver and Mildred resolved that if ever they should see Pastor Dendel again, they would ask him what he thought of all this. They agreed that they would offer to help Roger to seek for other curiosities, to make a show of; and would give him, for his own, all they could find, if he would but consent to bury this body again, decently, and beside ...
— The Settlers at Home • Harriet Martineau


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