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assent

  • /əˈsɛnt/

Sounds like ascent · Rhymes with -ɛnt

Where it comes from

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō (whence as-).

verb assents · assenting · assented

  1. intransitive To agree to a proposal. And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

noun assents

  1. countable, uncountable Agreement; act of agreeing. I will give this act my assent.
  2. countable A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will.

Similar: approval, consent, sanction

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