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Definition of Assent

Assent To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence. Related Definitions: Acquiescence, Act, Admit, Admitting, Agreeing, Agreement, Anything, Approval, As, Assenting, Concession, Concurrence, Consent, Express, In, Mind, Of, One, Or, The, Thing, To, True, With

Assent Quotations Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. Mohandas Gandhi That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. Aldous Huxley In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. William Ames You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Assent Translations assent in Afrikaans is bevestig assent in Dutch is ja zeggen, beamen, bevestigen assent in French is assentent, assentez, assentiment, assentons assent in German is zustimmen/behaupten, zustimmen assent in Italian is promessa, assentire assent in Norwegian is samtykke assent in Spanish is asentir, asentimiento, afirmativa assent in Swedish is samtycke, bifall

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