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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Fleetwood said; and he nodded consentingly over her next remark— 'Not while I live, till he must go to school!'
From The Amazing Marriage — Complete by George Meredith
Mrs. Spragg consentingly slipped the rings from her small mottled hands.
From The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
She had a pleading note which made him at last more consentingly face her.
From The Awkward Age by Henry James
Fleetwood said; and he nodded consentingly over her next remark 'Not while I live, till he must go to school!'
From The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 by George Meredith
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 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
