Consentient

Word CONSENTIENT
Character 11
Hyphenation con sen tient
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Definitions and meanings of "Consentient"

What do we mean by consentient?

Agreeing; in accord

A foundationalist societal theory which holds that only a society founded on the fully-informed consent of the individuals involved in the foundation of it is just at foundation and sustainable. Urban Dictionary

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The word "consentient" in example sentences

We are going to submit to the consideration of the Cuban people and consentient declaration containing the points of view of the Cuban people. ❋ Unknown (1960)

No human soul is left destitute of the visiting of God's spirit, and however rudimentary the moral life may be, no bounds can be set to the growth which may, and which God intends should, result wherever the human will is consentient. ❋ Archibald B. C. Alexander (N/A)

If he were to find their character to be invariable, and peculiar to each of the boards put before him, he would learn that before he trusts his subject to the canvass, he should question himself as to the sentiment he intends it to express, and what combination of colours would be consentient or dissentient to it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Sulpicius declared openly that he would punish all according to the usage of military discipline, being deterred by the consentient shout of the soldiers who threw the blame on one sentinel, he spared the rest. ❋ Titus Livius (N/A)

Positive Law, to get back to purely natural principles, it accepted from Rousseau and the Utilitarians the principle that all right comes from the State, all authority from the consentient wills of the people of the State. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The consentient testimony of witnesses above the suspicion of prejudice establishes the fact that at the present day Buddhist monks are everywhere strikingly deficient in that moral earnestness and exemplary conduct which distinguished the early followers of Buddha. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In Greece, where limb and thought were consentient in one grace of motion, the body was too perfect an expression of the mind to admit any consciousness of discord; the greater simplicity of a life passed largely in the open air, left no place for awkwardness in the franker converse of man with man. ❋ Unknown (1905)

We shall follow universality in this way, if we confess that one faith to be true which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity, if we in nowise depart from those interpretations which it is manifest were notoriously held by our holy ancestors and fathers; consent in like manner, if in antiquity itself we adhere to the consentient definitions and determinations of all, or at least almost all, priests and doctors. ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)

The pulpit is to all other professions what philosophy is to the various schools of science -- exercises supervisory power, and by a tap here and a prod there, makes them consentient with its own infallible scheme of things, so to speak. ❋ Unknown (1898)

There is a large amount of consentient tradition to the effect that the life of man was originally far more prolonged than it is at present, extending to at least several hundred years. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

When spiritually-minded men take the lead in counsel, and the Lord's people follow them with consentient hearts, there can be no doubt that their decisions are arrived at with the participation of our Lord Jesus ❋ Unknown (1895)

He solemnly promised that he would propose to his hearers what would be conformed and consentient to these writings, and that he would never depart from the sense which they give. ' ❋ Unknown (1894)

Rose, however, seemed less consentient than usual. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

It is applying the dry-rot system of fleet tactics in the middle of the eighteenth century to the days after Rodney and Nelson, and is further effectually disposed of by the consentient statement of several of the American captains, that their commander's dispositions were made with reference to the enemy's order; that is, that he assigned a special enemy's ship to a special ❋ Unknown (1877)

Her husband being consentient to this life-long separation, her lot might be fairly happy. ❋ Unknown (1875)

Brian appearing consentient, Mr. Jardine left him, with Towler in attendance. ❋ Unknown (1875)

And this fact infinitely outweighs the evidence of any extant MSS. which can be named: for it is the consentient evidence of hundreds, -- or rather of thousands of copies of the Gospels of a date anterior to A.D. 400, which have long since perished. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

But the consentient witness of the MSS. is even extraordinary. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

If we find it invariably consentient and invariably truthful, then of course a mighty presumption will have been established, the very strongest possible, that their adverse testimony in. respect of the conclusion of S. Mark's Gospel must needs be worthy of all acceptation. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

Their authority for this reading is the consentient testimony of the four oldest MSS. which contain S. Luke ii. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

He decided to found a new [society] on the [principles] of [consentientism]. ❋ Entità Sovrano (2010)

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