2. Verb. (third-person singular of assent) ¹
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Definition of Assents
1. assent [v] - See also: assent
Literary usage of Assents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Edmund Story-Maskelyne (1872)
"(i) What assents are required. 1.—A trust deed for the benefit of creditors ...
There would not have been the statutory majority of assents to a deed under ..."
2. An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman (1870)
"Notional assents. I SHALL consider Assent made to propositions which ... There are
assents so feeble and superficial, as to be little more than assertions. ..."
3. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Zeal of the Catholics—Babington's conspiracy—Mary assents to the conspiracy—The
conspirators seized and executed—Resolution to try the queen of Scots—The ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"The king assents, saving his prerogative, and his right of dispensing with it
when he pleased. To which the commons replied, that their intention was never ..."
5. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"... but resume office—M. de Freycinet assents to Turkish intervention — Arabi
requested to leave Egypt—He refuses to do so—The Ministers again resign— The ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"If the officer of the boat accepts or assents to tne order, as being right, then
the purchaser looks to the boat for the produce or merchandise, ..."
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