Word Meanings - ASSENTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Assent; agreement.

Related words: (words related to ASSENTMENT)

• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• ASSENTATOR
  An obsequious; a flatterer.
• ASSENTING
  Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.
• ASSENTIVE
  Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n.
• 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.
• AGREEMENT
  Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
• 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
• DISASSENT
  To dissent.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• DISASSENTER
  One who disassents; a dissenter. State Trials .
• GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
  An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.
• DISAGREEMENT
  1. The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity. 2. Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. 3. Difference of opinion or sentiment. 4. A falling out, or controversy; difference. Syn. -- Difference; diversity; dissimilitude;
• UNASSENTED
  Not assented; -- said specif. of stocks or bonds the holders of which refuse to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment.