assent
verb (used without object)
to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed byto ).
was assenting
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past progressiveof assent.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The doctor was assenting perfunctorily to his friend's animated harangue.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Charles Caldwell Dobie
Fanny felt that she was assenting, even in that she did not answer such a question by an immediate refusal of her permission; and yet she did not mean to assent.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
I was just saying to Morgan, here, that if Judge Bateman would consent to run,—or rather, he was saying it and I was assenting, when you came in.
From A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow
And now, after that announcement, he was assenting to her proposal that they should go out and amuse themselves together.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Apparently she was urging him to some course of action, and the doctor, with his hands under his coattails, was assenting with a poor grace.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
