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Capitulate vs Acquiescence - What's the difference?

capitulate | acquiescence |

As a verb capitulate

is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

As a noun acquiescence is

a silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

capitulate

English

Verb

(capitulat)
  • (obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
  • (obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
  • * Heylin
  • there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
  • To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
  • He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
  • * Macaulay
  • The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .

    Synonyms

    * wave the white flag

    acquiescence

    Noun

    (-)
  • A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  • (legal) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.