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/ˌækwiˈɛsəns/ Listen

noun

Acquiescence n.

A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

(Crim. Law)

(a)

Submission to an injury by the party injured.

(b)

Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

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Etymology of 'Acquiescence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acquiescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the High Bridge," said Esmay, and Nanna nodded acquiescence. "And it is the morning of the third day," continued Esmay, and ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

... you have shown, and by a signal instance, How they who would be just must seek the rule By diving for it into their own bosoms. To-day you have thrown off a tyranny That lives but in the torpid acquiescence Of our emasculated souls, the tyranny Of the world's masters, with the musty rules By which they uphold their craft from age to age: You have obeyed the only law that sense Submits to recognise; ...

— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight

... upon Milton. It was to a larger house in Barbican, a side street leading out of Aldersgate, that he brought the Powells and Mary Milton. Milton probably abated his exactions on the point of companionship, and learned to be content with her acquiescence in the duties of a wife. In July, 1646, she became a mother, and bore in all four children. Of these, three, all daughters, lived to grow up. Mary Milton herself died in giving birth to the fourth child in the summer of 1652. She was only twenty-six, and had been ...

— Milton • Mark Pattison

... Monsieur d'Argenton, will understand what the King means by quickly. I know nothing but that you are to leave Valmy to-morrow morning instead of the day after, and so he must see Monsieur La Mothe to-night. As Monsieur d'Argenton's friend, Monsieur La Mothe, I would advise humble acquiescence." ...

— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond

... say something upon second sight, of which I have related two instances, as they impressed my mind at the time. I own, I returned from the Hebrides with a considerable degree of faith in the many stories of that kind which I heard with a too easy acquiescence, without any clear examination of the evidence: but, since that time, my belief in those stories has been much weakened, by reflecting on the careless inaccuracy of narrative in common matters, from which we ...

— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell

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