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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"I come up," said Flor, consentingly, and quite as if he had got the better of the discussion.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
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
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
She had a pleading note which made him at last more consentingly face her.
From The Awkward Age by Henry James
