Plural of assenter; people who agree or express approval to something proposed or suggested.
From Latin 'assentire' (to agree) combining 'ad-' (to) and 'sentire' (to feel/think). The agent noun 'assenter' adds the suffix '-er' to create 'one who assents,' with '-s' making it plural.
The word reveals how agreement was once understood as a 'feeling toward' something rather than just intellectual approval—the root 'sentire' is the same root that gives us 'sentiment' and 'sense,' showing that medieval thinkers saw agreement as fundamentally emotional.
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