Assenting

Definition: Assenting

Assenting

Adjective

1. Expressing agreement or consent; "an assenting nod".

Noun

1. Agreeing with; "assenting to the Congressional determination".

Date "assenting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Assenting

Synonyms: agreeing(a) (adj), assentient (adj), accession (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Adjective: assenting; v; of one accord, of one mind; of the same mind, at one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Assenting

English words defined with "assenting": agreeing, assentient. (references)

Specialty definitions using "assenting": Accomplice ♦ Vinegar. (references)

Etymologies containing "assenting": homologous. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Assenting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Assenting" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	6	143,867

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "assenting": non-assenting.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "assenting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		同意 (Accede, Acceded, Acceding, Agree, Agreed, Agreeing, Assent, Assented, Concur, Concurred, Concurring, Consent, Consented, Consenting). (various references)

French		assentant. (various references)

German		zustimmend (acquiescent, affirmative, approving, approvingly, concerned, consentient, consenting, jibing). (various references)

Korean		동의 (Assent, Consent, Consenting, motion). (various references)

Manx		coardagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		assentingay

Russian		соглашаться (accede, agree, agrees, assent, assented, assents, comply, concur, consent, countenance, homologate, run in). (various references)

Swedish		bejakande (affirmative, affirmative answer, assent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Assenting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assention, assyntian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sensating.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: antigens, eastings, gentians, giantess, insanest, seatings, stanines.
	-2 letters: ageists, anteing, antigen, antings, easting, eatings, ensigns, entasis, gannets, gentian, inanest, ingates, ingesta, ingests, nasties, nesting, sagiest, seating, sennits, sensing, sestina, siennas, signets, stanine, staning, tansies, teasing, tensing, tisanes.
	-3 letters: ageist, agents, agists, anenst, angsts, anises, anting, assent, assign, easing, eating, ensign, gainst, gannet, giants.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: assignment, fastenings, gannisters.
	+2 letters: assignments, astringents, isoantigens, lastingness, naughtiness, signalments, stagnancies.
	+3 letters: angiotensins, designations, disentangles, exactingness, garnishments, ignorantness, langoustines, linecastings, negativeness, nitrogenases, reassignment, resignations, sanguinities, tangibleness.
	+4 letters: acceptingness, antiestrogens, astringencies, disseminating, exsanguinates, intransigents, introgressant, languishments, lastingnesses, misalignments, naughtinesses, necessitating, reassignments, segmentations, transgressing, transgression.
	+5 letters: antiaggression, contagiousness, disengagements, essentializing, exactingnesses, gelatinousness, ignorantnesses, intangibleness, intransigeants, intransigences, introgressants, investigations, miscegenations, mismanagements, negativenesses, neonatologists, stepparentings, subgenerations, tangiblenesses, transgressions, understaffings, understandings, upstandingness.
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