0 official agreement to or approval of an idea, plan, or request:
2 agreement to an idea, plan, or request, esp. after serious consideration:
3 official agreement to an idea, plan, or request:
with the assent of sb The government, with the assent of the two smaller opposition parties, pushed through the bill this week.
give your assent to sth Once the directors have given their assent to the proposal, work can start almost immediately.
4 a document that states that someone is the new legal owner of the property of someone who has died:
The transfer of a property to the beneficiary after someone has died is done by means of an assent.
The two-child limit becomes increasingly acceptable with more prolonged education until it is assented to by 62 % of those with 13 or more years of education.
Rather, they are assented to, or conceded by, the respondent insofar as they express beliefs commonly held by people worthy of our trust in any given matter.
In each case, the ends pursued provide the only context within which the prescriptive force of the statement can be understood, and either assented to or repudiated.
Is not assenting solely on the basis of that instinct, itself prompted by grace, entirely rational (as well as meritorious), and therefore sufficient from an epistemic point of view?
The collective interpretation is consistent with its being highly unlikely that an agent will discern secular corroboration for a subset of the religiously grounded moral truths to which she assents.
When that approach was then distorted by the exercise of market powers by certain sections of the industry, he tamely assented to it.
What evidence is there that the transferee has assented to the obligation he is undertaking to pay calls in the future?
I thought he assented to the suggestion that the words should be left out because they were left out in the corresponding paragraph above.
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