assent
verb (used without object)
to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed byto ).
have assented
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present perfectof assent.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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
If Tom, the driver, had proposed to send the mares in a bee-line to the city, I should have assented, and so would the old lady, who chewed gum and talked about her symptoms.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
At best they might have assented, after his death, to the sublime pity with which Carlyle, from his spiritual altitudes, moralized upon his struggles.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
Had he said, "Come down into the water of the canal with me," she would have assented even more willingly.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
