different between assent vs accordance

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: ascent

Etymology

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

Verb

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.

   • And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

Synonyms

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

Related terms

Translations

Noun

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

Synonyms

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

Related terms

• assentor

Translations

Anagrams

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

Latin

Verb

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ass?

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) accordaunce

Etymology

• (compliance): First attested around 1300.
• (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.
• accord +? -ance
• From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??k??.d?ns/

Noun

accordance (countable and uncountable, plural accordances)

1. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
2. The act of granting something.

Synonyms

• harmony, unison, coincidence

Translations