All 5 Uses of
assent
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Mr Bloom gave prudent assent.†
Chpt 6 *
- Gerty smiled assent and bit her lip.†
Chpt 13
- THE JURORS: (All their heads lowered in assent) Most of us thought as much.†
Chpt 15
- —Memorable bloody bridge battle and seven minutes' war, Stephen assented, between Skinner's alley and Ormond market.†
Chpt 16
- Bloom assented covertly to Stephen's rectification of the anachronism involved in assigning the date of the conversion of the Irish nation to christianity from druidism by Patrick son of Calpornus, son of Potitus, son of Odyssus, sent by pope Celestine I in the year 432 in the reign of Leary to the year 260 or thereabouts in the reign of Cormac MacArt (died 266 A.D.), suffocated by imperfect deglutition of aliment at Sletty and interred at Rossnaree.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
to express agreement -- especially with a statement or proposal to do something