[f. ASSENT v. + -ING1.] The action of giving assent, acquiescence.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxvi. 149. Faith of Supernaturall Law, is … only an assenting to the same.

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1670.  Vaughan, in Phœnix, 1721, I. 422. A Juror kept his Fellows a Day and a Night without any reason or assenting.

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