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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abject, accepting, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, approving, assentatious, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, conceding, concessive, consentient, consenting, content, eager, endorsing, favorable, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nothing loath, obedient, passive, permissive, prompt, ratifying, ready, resigned, sanctioning, servile, submissive, subservient, supine, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, willing
Dictionary Results for assenting:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
assenting
    n 1: agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly);
         "accession to such demands would set a dangerous
         precedent"; "assenting to the Congressional determination"
         [syn: accession, assenting]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Assent \As*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assented; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Assenting.] [F. assentir, L. assentire, assentiri; ad +
   sentire to feel, think. See Sense.]
   To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement,
   acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.
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         Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also
         assented, saying that these things were so. --Acts
                                                  xxiv. 9.
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         The princess assented to all that was suggested.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   Syn: To yield; agree; acquiesce; concede; concur.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Assenting \As*sent"ing\, a.
   Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.
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