| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (I) Formation of Ideas |
| Section V. Results of Reasoning |
| 488. Assent. |
| NOUN: | ASSENT, assentment [archaic]; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement [See Agreement]; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal, recognizance [rare], confession, confession of faith. UNANIMITY, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi [L.]; popular -, current- -belief, - opinion; public opinion; concurrence (of causes) [See Concurrence]; coöperation (voluntary) [See Coöperation]. RATIFICATION, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa, visé [F.]; indorsement (record) [See Record]. consent (compliance) [See Consent]. AFFIRMANT, assentant [obs.], professor [esp. in relig.], confirmist, consenter, covenantor, subscriber, indorser or endorser; upholder (auxiliary) [See Auxiliary]. |
| VERB: | ASSENT; give -, yield -, nodassent; acquiesce; agree [See Agreement]; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close with; echo, enter into one’s views, agree in opinion; vote for, give one’s voice for; recognize; subscribe -, conform -, defer- to; say -yes, - ditto, - amen, - aye- to. go -, float -, swim- with the stream; float with the current; get on the band wagon [slang]; be in the fashion, join in the chorus; be in every mouth. arrive at -, come to- -an understanding, - terms, - an agreement. ACKNOWLEDGE, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede (yield) [See Consent]; come round to; abide by; permit [See Permission]. CONFIRM, affirm; ratify, approve, indorse, visa, visé [F.], countersign; corroborate [See Evidence]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | ASSENTING &c. v.; of one -accord, - mind; of the same mind, affirmant, assentaneous [rare], assentant [obs.], at one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing [See Willingness]. UNCONTRADICTED, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted. carried -, agreed- -nem. con. [L.] &c. adv.; unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation. affirmative [See Affirmation]. |
| ADVERB: | YES, yea, aye or ay, true; good; well; how true, very -well, - true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, as you say, sure, surely, assuredly, “thou hast said”; truly, exactly, precisely, that’s just it, indeed, certainly, certes [archaic], ex concesso [L.], of course, unquestionably, no doubt, doubtless. BE IT SO; so be it, so let it be; so mote it be, with all one’s heart; amen; willingly [See Willingness]. AFFIRMATIVELY, in the affirmative. UNANIMOUSLY, unâ voce [L.], by common consent, in chorus, to a man; with one -consent, - voice, - accord; nem. con. [L.]; nemine contradicente [L.], nemine dissentiente [L.], without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands. |
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