consent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈsɛnt/
consent (consents, present participle consenting; past and past participle consented) (intransitive)
- To express willingness, to give permission.
- ''After reflecting a little bit, I've consented.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene i]:
- My poverty, but not my will, consents.
- (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
- (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
- Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.
- To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 8:1 ↗:
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.
- French: consentir, approuver, agréer
- German: zustimmen, einwilligen
- Italian: consentire
- Portuguese: consentir, aprovar, deixar
- Russian: соглаша́ться
- Spanish: consentir
consent
- Voluntary agreement or permission.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.
- (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
- 1604-11, Bible (King James Version), Luke: XIV:18
- And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
- 1604-11, Bible (King James Version), Luke: XIV:18
- (obsolete) Advice; counsel.
- (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, consensualness, permission, willingness, yes
- (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusal
- French: consentement, approbation, agrément
- German: Zustimmung, Konsens, Einverständnis
- Italian: consenso
- Portuguese: consentimento
- Russian: разреше́ние
- Spanish: consentimiento, venia
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