consent
verb (used without object)
to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive).
unconsenting
-
a word derived from
consent.
Example Sentences
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Isn’t education about how to avoid transmission preferable to performing irreversable surgery on unconsenting infants?
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2010
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow on, O unconsenting sea, And keep my dead below; Though night—O utter night!—my soul, Delude thee long, I know, Or Life comes or Death comes, God leads the eternal flow.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
The unconsenting Soul stands by, A moaning protestant.
From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor
Downcast faces listened; a most unconsenting silence answered.
From Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition by Juliet Bredon
