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Definition
to express agreement — especially with a statement or proposal to do something
- Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation.Chapter 20 (48% in)
- He paused for her assent and compassion; and she forced herself to say, "Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."Chapter 33 (56% in)
- They all looked their assent; it seemed too awful a moment for speech.Chapter 37 (67% in)
- Elinor bowed her assent.Chapter 44 (15% in)
- Elinor could NOT remember it;—but her mother, without waiting for her assent, continued, "And his manners, the Colonel's manners are not only more pleasing to me than Willoughby's ever were, but they are of a kind I well know to be more solidly attaching to Marianne.Chapter 45 (87% in)
- Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon's injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate.Chapter 47 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "assent" in Sense and Sensibility.
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