unconsenting
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a word derived from
consent.
consentverb (used without object)to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive).
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
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Granted that he was a villain, double-dyed and beyond hope, yet he was the home of such courage, such virility, that her unconsenting admiration went out in spite of herself.
From Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West by William MacLeod Raine
The unconsenting Soul stands by, A moaning protestant.
From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor
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