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assent

/əˈsɛnt/ verb C2
  1. To agree to a proposal. (intransitive)

He/she/it assents · Past assented · Past participle assented · -ing form assenting

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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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 39 · B2
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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 76 · B2
In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 79 · B2
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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 204 · B2

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