consent
verb (used without object)
to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive).
consentingly
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a word derived from
consent.
Example Sentences
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The whole reference of his errand seemed to mark her for Strether as by this time consentingly familiar to him, and nothing yet had so despoiled her of a special shade of consideration.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
But the precious little innermost, say this time little golden, personal nature of you—blest by a greater power, I think, even than the Pope—that you've never consentingly shown me.
From The Golden Bowl — Complete by Henry James
Clotilde gazed aside for a moment and then confronted her questioner consentingly.
From The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
But the precious little innermost, say this time little golden, personal nature of you— blest by a greater power, I think, even than the Pope—that you've never consentingly shown me.
From The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James
He fretted her because he would do nothing, and this spectacle of a lover beloved, but consenting to be mystified, consentingly paralyzed:— of a lover beloved!—
From Sandra Belloni — Volume 5 by George Meredith
