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
The Whigs protested warmly against this infamous disposition of the affairs of unconsenting peoples.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
Downcast faces listened; a most unconsenting silence answered.
From Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition by Juliet Bredon
The officer was loud and impassioned, the lady firm but unconsenting.
From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
