What is the difference between assent and accede?
assent | accede | Synonyms |
To agree to, give approval.
* Macaulay
To admit a thing as true.
* Bible, Acts xxiv. 9
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 32:
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
Accede is a synonym of assent.
As verbs the difference between assent and accede
is that assent is to agree to, give approval while accede is to approach; to arrive, to come forward.As a noun assent
is agreement, act of agreeing.assent
English
Verb
(en verb)- The princess assented to all that was suggested.
- And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.
Synonyms
* accede *Synonyms
*Anagrams
* ----accede
English
Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.