The Only Use of
acquiesce
in
The Interlopers
- A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.†
acquiesced = reluctantly complied
Definition:
reluctant or unenthusiastic compliance, consent, or agreement