ACQUIESCENCE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Acquiescence

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˌækwiˈɛsəns/ Listen

Acquiescence

noun

Acceptance without protest.

Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something. Synonym: assent. "A murmur of acquiescence from the assembly"

See more definitions of Acquiescence...

See images of 'Acquiescence'

Etymology of 'Acquiescence'

Share |

"Acquiescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... "This tendency to acquiescence and submission, this sense of insignificance of individual effort, this belief that the affairs of men are swayed by large forces whose movements may be studied but cannot be turned, I have ventured to call it "The Fatalism of the Multitude." It is ...

— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... troubled her, then, as to the acquiescence of her daughter. She had no faintest idea that the girl's heart had been touched by the young tailor. She had so lived that she knew but little of lovers and their love, and in her fear regarding Daniel Thwaite she had not conceived danger such as that. It had to her simply been unfitting that ...

— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope

... "A cold acquiescence. You think, perhaps, the matter is either above or beneath me—that I can have no interest therein?" And his eyes, bright, piercing, commanding, seemed ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... of acquiescence, and looked across the room to where the luckless Euphemia sat edged in a corner behind a row of painfully conversational elderly gentlemen, who were struggling with the best intentions to keep up a theological discourse ...

— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the boundary was referred to the two chief justices, who promptly decided against the Company; [Footnote: See Opinion; Chalmers's Annals, p. 504.] and the easy acquiescence of the General Court must raise a doubt as to their faith in the soundness of their claims. And now again the fatality which seemed to pursue the theocracy in all its dealings with England led it to give ...

— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

More quotes...