Meaning

(intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.
2. (transitive, medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
4. (intransitive) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
5. Voluntary agreement or permission.
6. (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
7. (obsolete) Advice; counsel.

Example Sentences

After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.

My poverty, but not my will, consents.

When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant

Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.

And Saul was consenting unto his death.

Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.

All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.

And they all with one consent began to make excuse.

Word Forms

• consents
• consenting
• consented
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• consentest
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Use consent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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