All 6 Uses
assent
in
Oliver Twist
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- Perhaps these were reasons for the old gentleman's giving his assent; but, whether they were or no, he told Oliver he might go, and placed him under the joint guardianship of Charley Bates, and his friend the Dodger.†
Chpt 10
- The Jew nodded assent.†
Chpt 13 *
- Master Bates nodded assent, and would have spoken, but the recollection of Oliver's flight came so suddenly upon him, that the smoke he was inhaling got entangled with a laugh, and went up into his head, and down into his throat: and brought on a fit of coughing and stamping, about five minutes long.†
Chpt 18
- 'Will ten do?' asked Fagin, adding, as Mr. Claypole nodded assent, 'What name shall I tell my good friend.'†
Chpt 42
- Mr. Bolter put his hand to his neckerchief, as if he felt it inconveniently tight; and murmured an assent, qualified in tone but not in substance.†
Chpt 43
- Mr. Bolter nodded assent, and Fagin, after contemplating the grief of Charley Bates for some seconds with evident satisfaction, stepped up to that young gentleman and patted him on the shoulder.†
Chpt 43
Definitions:
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(1)
(assent) to express agreement -- especially with a statement or proposal to do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)