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
For, though the king by force possess'd her person, Her unconsenting heart dwelt still with you?
From Jane Shore A Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe
After one of these struggles—when she had given in to the force of circumstances, but still unconsenting and rebellious—Maverick fell back, and ranged his horse by her other side.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
Downcast faces listened; a most unconsenting silence answered.
From Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition by Juliet Bredon
