different between assent vs submission

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English submissioun, from Old French soubmission, from Latin submissio, from submitto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?b?m???n/

Noun

submission (countable and uncountable, plural submissions)

1. The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
2. The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.

   Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.

3. The thing which has been submitted.
4. A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.

Synonyms

• (act of yielding): acquiescence, capitulation, concession, giving in, submittal, obeyance, yielding
• (thing submitted): submittal

Antonyms

• (act of yielding): rebellion, control

Translations

Etymology 2

sub- +? mission

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?b?m???n/

Noun

submission (plural submissions)

1. A subset or component of a mission.

Middle English

Noun

submission

1. Alternative form of submissioun