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Definitions of acquiesce
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Acquiescently.
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Acquiescent.
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to agree or express agreement; " Yes, the Maestro assented."
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To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent ( usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; - followed by in, formerly also by with and to.
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Acquiescence.
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To tacitly consent; accept; assent.
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To rest satisfied or without making opposition: to assent.
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To agree in; to rest satisfied with; to assent quietly.
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To submit; comply; assent.
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To rest in, or remain satisfied with, generally implying previous opposition; to assent to in a passive way.
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to agree or express agreement; " The Maestro assented to the request for an encore"
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To agree by not objecting; to quietly comply or submit; to assent by silence: followed usually by in; as, to acquiesce in a policy determined upon.
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To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.
Antonyms for acquiesce
scorn, contend, shortcut, throw out, contradict, Nonconcur, pass up, disallow, repudiate, differ, dissent, protest, forgo, spurn, disapprove, throw over, bypass, dispute, rebuff, circumvent, disobey, abstain, nix, disagree, withhold, expostulate, gainsay, reject, deselect, turn down, decline, defy, deny, refuse, demur, sidestep, forbear, abjure, remonstrate, oppose, get around.
Quotes of acquiesce
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long -term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
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Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
– Robert Dale Owen
Usage examples for acquiesce
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“ This reversal of the usual way of regarding things might so resemble an empty playing with abstractions that even those against whom it is directed would acquiesce in the harmless aspect I give it, if practical consequences were not connected with it. ”
– The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner -
“ So, in spite of my abhorrence of the act, I was led at last, out of my very love to him, and regard for his future, to acquiesce in his plan. ”
– The Living Link by James De Mille -
“ And it will avail any church little to have a dozen settlement houses while her members acquiesce in a State which refuses to relieve her citizens from sickness and poverty. ”
– The Inside of the Cup, Complete by Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009 -
“ I suppose I expected Chichester to acquiesce ”
– The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Smythe Hichens -
“ In fine, Critias represented to Lysander that the Lacedaemonians could never securely enjoy the dominion of Greece, till the Athenian democracy was absolutely destroyed; and though now the people of Athens seemed quietly and patiently to submit to so small a number of governors, yet so long as Alcibiades lived, the knowledge of this fact would never suffer them to acquiesce in their present circumstances. ”
– Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh -
“ It was no longer " I keep my word, therefore you must keep yours," but " I will acquiesce in your breaking your word, if you will allow me to break mine." ”
– A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease -
“ It was becoming plain, however, as time went on that the conventions were not going to be regarded and that Parliament was as likely as not to acquiesce in the breach of them. ”
– The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry -
“ " A schooner often carry a royal," returned the black, resolute to acquiesce in all the other said. ”
– The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper -
“ I hope it will not be supposed that, on the one hand, I necessarily agree or acquiesce in those opinions which I do not expressly mention for the purpose of saying I differ from them, or, on the other hand, that I differ from those opinions in which I do not go out of my way to express agreement. ”
– Selected-Speeches-on-British-Foreign-Policy-1738-1914 by Jones, Edgar R. (Edgar Rees), Sir -
“ Everything seemed to acquiesce in the profound repose of Nature. ”
– Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving -
“ Believe me that I appreciate it and that I am willing, to a certain extent, to acquiesce in it. ”
– Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim -
“ What they should do rests with the politicians: it is their part to suggest, the labourer's to acquiesce ”
– Change in the Village by (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt -
“ It was the original intention of Park's father to educate him for the Scottish church, for which he appeared to be well fitted by his studious habits and the serious turn of his mind; but, his son having made choice of the medical profession, he was readily induced to acquiesce ”
– The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 by Mungo Park -
“ I should gladly acquiesce in the motion made by Mr. Macpherson, if I thought it possible to frame a letter to the Begums in any terms which should at the same time convey the intimation proposed by it and not defeat the purpose of it, or be productive of evils greater than any which exist in consequence of the proceedings which have already taken place, and which time has almost obliterated. ”
– The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) by Edmund Burke -
“ To this I was obliged to acquiesce ”
– The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Various -
“ Julia rose to her feet, there was no choice left to her but to acquiesce from her heart she wished he would leave the basket and go alone; she wished even that he would be rude to her, she felt that then he would have been nearer her level and her father's. ”
– The Good Comrade by Una L. Silberrad -
“ Mr. Thouvenel politely but logically refuses to acquiesce in Mr. Seward's demand concerning the belligerents. ”
– Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam Gurowski -
“ He didn't even seem trying to make a merit of his refusal to acquiesce in that sordid point of view. ”
– The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster -
“ They had reason to believe that, after he should be received, the Emperor would be reconciled to the measure, and that by his intercession the King of Spain would be likewise induced to acquiesce ”
– Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete by John Lothrop Motley
Rhymes for acquiesce
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- abts, adss, cmos, hces, nevertheless, stds, tcas, ws;