assent
verb (used without object)
to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed byto ).
is assenting
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present progressiveof assent (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If he simply disbelieves, or dissents, he is assenting to the contradictory of the thesis, viz. that there is no Revelation.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
The Sultan knows, and the Powers know, that when they demand a vigorous policy in defence of the Christians they are asking and he is assenting to an impossibility.
From The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop
This is assenting to the premiss, inferentia, and thing inferred, all at once;—we assent to the whole syllogism, and to its component parts.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
