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Definition of Acquiescing
1. acquiesce [v] - See also: acquiesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquiescing
Literary usage of Acquiescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... that when he showed the King the words in the speech about the Militia, he
said he wished they had been stronger, but saw the necessity of acquiescing. ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"His letter to Sheridan, reluctantly acquiescing in this arrangement. Letter of
This was the state of affairs when Fox arrived from Italy. ..."
3. A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy by John Garrett (1871)
"... acquiescing, the god confirmed the gift, by which he became possessed of an
equivalent for the loss of territory. ..."
4. Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and ...by Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard by Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard (1828)
"... blood,) had entailed on the acquiescing people of England. That people were
too little prepared to entertain the comprehensive views of their more ..."
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