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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

... without love," he said, but he said it half-heartedly. How was a decent man to throw over a charming devoted girl to whom he was to be married in a fortnight, shaming her before all her little world after he had sought and won her? He thought of Laura's soft acquiescence with an agony of self-reproach and impatience. Then he heard Caroline speaking again, her voice low and clear with the murmur of the sea running in and out of it—he felt it go ...

— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

... acquiescence in his measures, he thus proceeded: My visit was made to my kinswoman, for the purpose, as I just now told you, of paving your way into her family; but, on my arrival at her house, I found nothing but disorder and alarm. ...

— Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist - (A Fragment) • Charles Brockden Brown

... afterwards understood to be the Irish, Earse, or Gaelic, explaining, probably, the services which he required at his hand. The answer, "Wi' a' her heart—wi' a' her soul," with a good deal of indistinct muttering in a similar tone, intimated the turnkey's acquiescence in what he proposed. The fellow trimmed his dying lamp, and made a sign ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... had the largest inkling of what such poetry might be; but he disqualified himself by an aptitude for ecstasy, which made his poetry superb and his wisdom of no account. To acquiesce is wise; to be ecstatic in acquiescence is not to have acquiesced at all. It is to have identified oneself with an imagined power against whose manifestations, in those moments when no ecstasy remains, one rebels. It is a megalomania, a sublime self-deception, a heroic ...

— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry

... I ventured yesterday to indicate to the lady that I was prepared to submit to the common lot of humanity. I shall wait upon her after my morning lecture, and learn how far my proposals meet with her acquiescence. But you ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

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