Expressing or showing agreement or approval of something.
From Latin 'assentient-' (present participle of 'assentire'). The '-ent' suffix marks a quality or state, making this adjective form literally mean 'being in the state of agreeing.'
This word is almost extinct in modern English, but it appears in 18th-century philosophy and legal documents where precision about degrees of agreement mattered—philosophers needed to distinguish between passive consent and active agreement.
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