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consent | consentingly |

As a verb consent

is to express willingness, to give permission.

As a noun consent

is voluntary agreement or permission.

As an adverb consentingly is

in a consenting manner, showing consent.

consent

English

(wikipedia consent)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To express willingness, to give permission.
    • ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • My poverty, but not my will, consents .
  • (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
  • * (rfdate) Milton
    • 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.
  • * (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
    • And Saul was consenting unto his death.
  • * (rfdate) Fuller
    • Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Synonyms

    * (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,

    Antonyms

    * (intransitive) disagree, , oppose

    Derived terms

    * consenting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Voluntary agreement or permission.
  • *, II.6:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, permission, willingness,

    Antonyms

    * (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusal

    Derived terms

    * consenter * consentaneous * age of consent

    consentingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in a consenting manner, showing consent
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Edith Wharton, title=The Custom of the Country, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It'll be more sociable," the masseuse suggested, lifting her bag to the table and covering its shiny onyx surface with bottles and polishers. Mrs. Spragg consentingly slipped the rings from her small mottled hands. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1894, author=Various, title=McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Yet, as he talked, Dosia became curiously aware that from his position directly across the room he was covertly watching her as she sat consentingly listening to George Sutton, whose round face was bending over very near, his thick coat sleeve pinning down the filmy ruffles of hers as it rested on the carved arm of the little sofa. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Charles Cotton, title=The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 7, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldom, of which the bare name only affrights so many people. }}