What is another word for consents?

Pronunciation: [kənsˈɛnts] (IPA)

"Consents" is a term that typically refers to agreement or approval given by an individual or organization. There are a number of synonyms that can be used to describe this concept, including "concurs," "concords," "approves," "authorizes," "sanctions," "endorses," "ratifies," "signs off on," "grants permission," and "affirms." Each of these synonym terms can be used interchangeably with "consents" to convey the same basic sense of agreement or approval. When working with text that calls for a varied or nuanced vocabulary, the ability to call upon synonyms like these is crucial for producing writing that is both expressive and precise.

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Usage examples for Consents

Let no subject ever be coerced to enter it, nor to remain one hour longer than while his adoring loyalty consents.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
If she then still consents to this marriage, hundreds of letters would be of no avail.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
The pianist, on the contrary, needs a deal of urging before he consents to pound away fiercely at the Pleyel piano as though he were a personal enemy of the maker.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin

Famous quotes with Consents

  • If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
    Orison Swett Marden
  • There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
    Simone de Beauvoir
  • To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
    Clifton Fadiman
  • When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.
    Theodore L. Cuyler

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