assentとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

動詞

assent (三人称単数 現在形 assents, 現在分詞 assenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree to a proposal.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The princess assented to all that was suggested.

   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 24:9:

     And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

同意語

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

関連する語

名詞

assent (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

   • 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:

     A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

   • 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 128:

     He lowered his head in assent.

同意語

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

関連する語

• assentor