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assent
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
assents; assented; assenting
assents; assented; assenting
Learner's definition of ASSENT
[no object] formal
: to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after carefully thinking about it（尤指慎重考虑之后）同意，赞成 — often + to
- The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented.将军提出一个详尽计划，总统表示同意。
- She refused to assent to [=agree to] the new rules.她拒绝同意新规定。
— assent
noun [noncount]- A contract requires the assent [=agreement, approval] of both parties.合同必须得到双方的同意。
- The leaders gave their assent [=approval] to the peace proposal.几位领导人同意了这项和平建议。
assented; assenting; assents
: to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after thoughtful consideration : concur
: an act of agreeing to something especially after thoughtful consideration : an act of assenting : acquiescence, agreement
Example Sentences
Verb One day I arrived at class to discuss some abolition treaties written during the early Romantic period. An African American woman, Stephanie, was introduced to me by one of my students. Stephanie asked if she could sit in on the class, and I of course assented. 
Laura Mandell, Profession, 1997 Christopher, on his end, is supposed to have assented to and even welcomed this public confirmation of his own negligibility, not that foreign diplomats needed any. Tom Carson, Village Voice, 19 July 1994 Fearing that without a new batch of social measures the country would slip away from him, Roosevelt assented—sometimes rather grudgingly—to proposals that in sum make up the semi-welfare state under which we have lived this past half century. Irving Howe, New York Times Book Review, 28 Sept.1986 The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented. are we to conclude from your silence that you assent? Noun Cornel West of Harvard introduced Bradley as "my brother, my comrade." Then Bradley, donning drugstore reading glasses, standing motionless at the podium, took the air out of the cavernous hall with a lecture on the history of racism and the complexity of ethnic subcultures. He got nods of knowing assent, but he could have had a standing O. Howard Fineman, Newsweek, 19 July 1999 Appointments at top universities often required the recommendation and assent of experts from other fields; insofar as deans, provosts, and other administrators came from economics and the hard sciences, many of them recognized rational choice as something close to their own ideals of legitimate scientific research. Jonathan Cohn, New Republic, 25 Oct. 1999 From The Second Sex to In a Different Voice, I could read and appreciate the analysis or the argument without feeling personally very involved. I could, and did, argue for feminism because I believed in much of what feminist writers were saying about gender equality, but my assent came from my head, not my heart. I knew that as an audience for feminist writers I was a pretty tertiary concern. Robert J. Connors, College English, February 1996 Once filming began, sequences that had been axed for budgetary reasons were put back—with the studio's tacit assent. Charles Fleming, Vanity Fair, August 1995 See More
Laura Mandell, Profession, 1997 Christopher, on his end, is supposed to have assented to and even welcomed this public confirmation of his own negligibility, not that foreign diplomats needed any. Tom Carson, Village Voice, 19 July 1994 Fearing that without a new batch of social measures the country would slip away from him, Roosevelt assented—sometimes rather grudgingly—to proposals that in sum make up the semi-welfare state under which we have lived this past half century. Irving Howe, New York Times Book Review, 28 Sept.1986 The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented. are we to conclude from your silence that you assent? Noun Cornel West of Harvard introduced Bradley as "my brother, my comrade." Then Bradley, donning drugstore reading glasses, standing motionless at the podium, took the air out of the cavernous hall with a lecture on the history of racism and the complexity of ethnic subcultures. He got nods of knowing assent, but he could have had a standing O. Howard Fineman, Newsweek, 19 July 1999 Appointments at top universities often required the recommendation and assent of experts from other fields; insofar as deans, provosts, and other administrators came from economics and the hard sciences, many of them recognized rational choice as something close to their own ideals of legitimate scientific research. Jonathan Cohn, New Republic, 25 Oct. 1999 From The Second Sex to In a Different Voice, I could read and appreciate the analysis or the argument without feeling personally very involved. I could, and did, argue for feminism because I believed in much of what feminist writers were saying about gender equality, but my assent came from my head, not my heart. I knew that as an audience for feminist writers I was a pretty tertiary concern. Robert J. Connors, College English, February 1996 Once filming began, sequences that had been axed for budgetary reasons were put back—with the studio's tacit assent. Charles Fleming, Vanity Fair, August 1995 See More Recent Examples on the Web Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 May 2022 On April 27, the bear to Bulgaria’s northeast dealt the Balkan country of 7 million people a harsh blow, cutting the natural gas that supplies roughly half of its heating fuel for refusing to assent to the Kremlin’s new demand for payment in rubles. Jordan Mcgillis, National Review, 2 May 2022 The roadblock to even more spending was Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), whose steadfast refusal to assent to the budget-reconciliation bill ended up killing it. Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022 The country’s attorney general — a Bolsonaro ally — needs to assent to a trial of the president in court. Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021 Germany and other northern European deficit hawks also assented to the temporary lifting of limits on spending in the European Union. Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020 Women in former eras were downtrodden and frequently assented to it. The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019 The government has also resorted to constitutional chicanery, exploiting the fact that Kashmir’s state legislature—which would normally have to assent to such changes—was dissolved over a year ago. The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019 Bolton had also strongly resisted a proposal from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to which Trump had initially assented, to invite Iran’s foreign minister to Washington last month, the officials said. Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019 Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022 Creating an automatic transfer was intended to discourage lawmakers from taking larger amounts of money from the fund, something allowed with a simple majority vote of the House and Senate, plus the assent of the governor. James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022 Producer Jonathan Wilson has committed himself to a fairly severe aesthetic with the sound of the record, presumably with Goldsmith’s eager assent. Chris Willman, Variety, 27 July 2022 Belief is not assent to a set of value propositions. Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Such a move would need the assent of Queen Elizabeth II, which could precipitate a political crisis. New York Times, 6 July 2022 With a 50-50 Senate, Democrats need Manchin's assent for anything to pass on party lines – even when using the reconciliation process to avoid the filibuster. Tyler Olson, Fox News, 19 July 2022 Investors were hot on crypto and prices were beginning their assent to the moon. Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 May 2022 While gun safety measures are popular with wide majorities of Americans nothing can pass without the assent of Mitch McConnell and GOP leaders in the Senate. Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 June 2022 See More
Verb
In its view, pushing a button manifests assent only if the user is explicitly advised that doing so manifests consent to the terms. Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 May 2022 On April 27, the bear to Bulgaria’s northeast dealt the Balkan country of 7 million people a harsh blow, cutting the natural gas that supplies roughly half of its heating fuel for refusing to assent to the Kremlin’s new demand for payment in rubles. Jordan Mcgillis, National Review, 2 May 2022 The roadblock to even more spending was Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), whose steadfast refusal to assent to the budget-reconciliation bill ended up killing it. Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022 The country’s attorney general — a Bolsonaro ally — needs to assent to a trial of the president in court. Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021 Germany and other northern European deficit hawks also assented to the temporary lifting of limits on spending in the European Union. Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020 Women in former eras were downtrodden and frequently assented to it. The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019 The government has also resorted to constitutional chicanery, exploiting the fact that Kashmir’s state legislature—which would normally have to assent to such changes—was dissolved over a year ago. The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019 Bolton had also strongly resisted a proposal from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to which Trump had initially assented, to invite Iran’s foreign minister to Washington last month, the officials said. Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019 Noun
There are murmurs of assent and dissent from the crowd. Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022 Creating an automatic transfer was intended to discourage lawmakers from taking larger amounts of money from the fund, something allowed with a simple majority vote of the House and Senate, plus the assent of the governor. James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022 Producer Jonathan Wilson has committed himself to a fairly severe aesthetic with the sound of the record, presumably with Goldsmith’s eager assent. Chris Willman, Variety, 27 July 2022 Belief is not assent to a set of value propositions. Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Such a move would need the assent of Queen Elizabeth II, which could precipitate a political crisis. New York Times, 6 July 2022 With a 50-50 Senate, Democrats need Manchin's assent for anything to pass on party lines – even when using the reconciliation process to avoid the filibuster. Tyler Olson, Fox News, 19 July 2022 Investors were hot on crypto and prices were beginning their assent to the moon. Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 May 2022 While gun safety measures are popular with wide majorities of Americans nothing can pass without the assent of Mitch McConnell and GOP leaders in the Senate. Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Verb and Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French assentir, assenter, from Latin assentari, from assentire, from ad- + sentire to feel — more at sense
First Known Use
Verb
13th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of assent was in the 13th century noun
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