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Word Meanings - ASSENTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.

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  • IMPLY
    1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
  • ASSENTATORY
    Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
  • ASSENTER
    One who assents.
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • GIVING
    1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
  • ASSENTMENT
    Assent; agreement.
  • ASSENTATOR
    An obsequious; a flatterer.
  • GIVER
    One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
  • ASSENTING
    Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.
  • ASSENTIVE
    Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n.
  • GIVEN
    p. p. & a. from Give, v.
  • ASSENTATION
    Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.
  • ASSENTIENT
    Assenting.
  • GIVE
    To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign;
  • ASSENT
    To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that
  • TERGIVERSATOR
    One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
  • THANKSGIVING
    1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
  • ALMSGIVING
    The giving of alms.
  • MISGIVING
    Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
  • FUNGIVOROUS
    Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
  • REGIVE
    To give again; to give back.
  • FORGIVER
    One who forgives. Johnson.
  • OGIVE
    The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
  • THANKSGIVER
    One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
  • THANKSGIVE
    To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede.
  • UPGIVE
    To give up or out.
  • LIFE-GIVING
    Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
  • DISASSENT
    To dissent.
  • FORGIVING
    Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.

 

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