Consent vs Contend - What's the difference?
consent | contend |
To express willingness, to give permission.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
*
(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:
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
As verbs the difference between consent and contend
is that consent is to express willingness, to give permission while contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.As a noun consent
is voluntary agreement or permission.consent
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.
Synonyms
* (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, permission, willingness,Antonyms
* (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusalDerived terms
* consenter * consentaneous * age of consentcontend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
