ACQUIESCENCE

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something

Example:

a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly

Synonyms:

acquiescence; assent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("acquiescence" is a kind of...):

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acquiescence"):

acceptance ((contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract))

conceding; concession; yielding (the act of conceding or yielding)

Derivation:

acquiesce (to agree or express agreement)

acquiescent (willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Acceptance without protest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("acquiescence" is a kind of...):

acceptance (the state of being acceptable and accepted)

Derivation:

acquiesce (to agree or express agreement)

Credits

Context examples:

Miss Woodhouse made the proper acquiescence; and finding that nothing more was to be entrapped from any communication of Mrs. Cole's, turned to Frank Churchill.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is useless, and the time awfully fails me, to prolong this description; no one has ever suffered such torments, let that suffice; and yet even to these, habit brought—no, not alleviation—but a certain callousness of soul, a certain acquiescence of despair; and my punishment might have gone on for years, but for the last calamity which has now fallen, and which has finally severed me from my own face and nature.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Poor old fellow, he had not uttered one word of surprise, complaint, fear, or even acquiescence from the very beginning of our troubles till now, when we had laid him down in the log-house to die.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

How Henry would think, and feel, and look, when he returned on the morrow to Northanger and heard of her being gone, was a question of force and interest to rise over every other, to be never ceasing, alternately irritating and soothing; it sometimes suggested the dread of his calm acquiescence, and at others was answered by the sweetest confidence in his regret and resentment.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I nodded acquiescence; he went on:—Then, what we must do is to prevent this; we must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know not.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Crawford smiled his acquiescence, and stepping forward to Maria, said, in a voice which she only could hear, “I do not like to see Miss Bertram so near the altar.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Ends was choking, and it was not until the grip on his throat was eased that he was able to signify his acquiescence in the digging-up programme.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Still Mrs. Elton insisted on being authorised to write an acquiescence by the morrow's post.