have assented
- present perfect of assent.
Example Sentences
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The MacDonald Cabinet was understood to have assented to this.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was anxious to see if the wheel worked, but at the same time “would gladly have assented to postpone the trial.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
He could not have solidified them himself, but if any one capable of presenting them to him in actual words had asked him, "Is it this you mean?" he would have assented.
From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic
Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport.
From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry
Regarding her even most critically one would have assented to the proposition that certainly if any woman in the world was happy that night it was Lady Isabel Earlsley.
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles
