consentient
Americanadjective
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agreeing; accordant.
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acting in harmonious agreement.
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unanimous, as an opinion.
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characterized by or having consentience.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- consentience noun
- consentiently adverb
- unconsentient adjective
Etymology
Origin of consentient
1615–25; < Latin consentient- (stem of consentiēns, present participle of consentīre to consent; -ent )
Example Sentences
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Her husband being consentient to this life-long separation, her lot might be fairly happy.
From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
But it is not only because of that consentient chorus of many voices—the testimony of which wise men will not reject—that the word is 'a faithful saying.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
He solemnly promised that he would propose to his hearers what would be conformed and consentient to these writings, and that he would never depart from the sense which they give.'
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
But, with the catchwords of Utilitarianism ringing in their ears, the commentators ran straight contrary to the true teaching of the Protagoras, consentient as it is with that of the Phaedo and the Philebus.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Their authority for this reading is the consentient testimony of the four oldest MSS. which contain S. Luke ii.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William
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