Synonyms:
acquiescence
Meaning: acceptance without protest
Synonyms:
assent, acquiescence
Meaning: agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly"
Usage examples
Delude many minds into acquiescence
Such ready acquiescence was meant to create them one.
Forced into acquiescence by her mother's appeals, overwhelmed by the situation, the girl consented and fled.
Who shall settle the terms of peace, and in case of disputes what umpire shall decide between them and compel acquiescence?
He was hardly prepared for so complete and so sudden an acquiescence in his proposal, and looked absolutely startled by it, at first.
That Becky meant something far different, he might have known from her humble acquiescence, and the sudden touch of her hand on his arm.
But instead of the smile and gracious acquiescence I had expected, there was another straightening back in the chair, and a silence that was ominous and chilling.
Frequently he bent his head in acquiescence, and occasionally interjected a pertinent question under the guidance of his secondary mind; but his thoughts moved in a circle of smaller radius.
I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence; and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprise, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child and least liable to wound her sensibility.