assent
/əˈsɛnt/ verb C2- To agree to a proposal.
He/she/it assents · Past assented · Past participle assented · -ing form assenting
Verb forms
- Base form
- assent
- He/she/it
- assents
- Past
- assented
- Past participle
- assented
- -ing form
- assenting
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To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend’s vulgar relations.
Collins readily assented, and a book was produced; but on beholding it (for everything announced it to be from a circulating library) he started back, and, begging pardon, protested that he never read novels.
In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.
Elizabeth looked at Darcy, to see how cordially he assented to his cousin’s praise: but neither at that moment nor at any other could she discern any symptom of love; and from the whole of his behaviour to Miss De Bourgh she derived this comfort for Miss Bingley, that he might have been just as likely to marry _her_, had she been his relation.
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