Authority vs Consent - What's the difference?
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(label) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(label) Persons in command; specifically, government.
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* 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
To express willingness, to give permission.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
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(obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
* (rfdate) Milton
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
* (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
* (rfdate) Fuller
Voluntary agreement or permission.
*, II.6:
As nouns the difference between authority and consent
is that authority is (label) the power to enforce rules or give orders while consent is voluntary agreement or permission.As a verb consent is
to express willingness, to give permission.authority
English
Alternative forms
* authourity (obsolete)Noun
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
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- To punish me for my contempt of authority', Fate has made me an ' authority myself.
Derived terms
* moral authorityStatistics
* English terms derived from Latinconsent
English
(wikipedia consent)Verb
(en verb)- ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
- My poverty, but not my will, consents .
- Interpreters will not consent it to be a true story.
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,Antonyms
* (intransitive) disagree, , opposeDerived terms
* consentingNoun
(en noun)- 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.