Definitions for consents

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consents con·sent

Spelling: [kuh n-sent]

IPA: /kənˈsɛnt/

Consents is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in consents (cennosst).

Definitions for consents

noun

1. permission, approval, or agreement; compliance; acquiescence:
2. agreement in sentiment, opinion, a course of action, etc.:
3. Archaic. accord; concord; harmony.

verb (used without object)

1. to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive):
2. Archaic. to agree in sentiment, opinion, etc.; be in harmony.

Origin of consents

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English consenten Anglo-French, Old French consentir Latin consentīre (see consensus); (noun) Middle English Anglo-French, Old French, nou

Examples for consents

She looked about to the others as if asking their consent to tell the story.

Do be on your guard—'if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.'

At the time the straight age of consent was 16, and it was 21 for gay men.

I would never have married him, if I had known—without your consent, I mean.

consent is manufactured—like, remember the Ebola crisis from a few weeks ago?

The committee recommended a single—and simple—principle be applied to the law, that of consent.

She would not consent to this marriage; but I carried the day, and my word is given.

Since when is a loud noise the only sign of resistance and lack of consent?

Well, let him become a doctor, and I will consent to the marriage.

Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.