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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.

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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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