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A person who assents.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Verb (used without object) : to assent to a statement. ,Assenting to his demands, I did as I was told
  • Assenting Annie didn't throw any back, as Annie is merely as assenter, but neither of the honorable ladies who were coming to break my bread knew that Susie McDougal's...
  • Presently he called on his comrades to stop, and held with them a long palaver, in which the French horn seemed to be an objector, and the trombone an assenter, while...
  • "Yaas," said the assenter; and off they cantered.
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