acquiesce
verb (used without object)
to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent.
acquiescingly
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a word derived from
acquiesce.
Example Sentences
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Yet acquiescingly I did turn as he pointed: neither pride Nor hope rekindling at the end descried.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
He turns aside, acquiescingly: he has given up a life of noble aspiration, and now hands over his despairing heart in surrender to the powers of darkness.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
Mrs. Lancaster smiled acquiescingly as she bit off a thread.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
Mrs. Evelyn bowed her head acquiescingly and seemed to enjoy her apple.
From Queechy by Susan Warner
If acquiescingly I do turn as they've pointed!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various
