Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: consents
IPA transcription: [kəns'ɛnts]
Usage examples
  • For who repents not cannot be absolved, Nor can one both repent and will at once, Because of the contradiction which consents not.'
  • Then the pilgrim, still disguised, offers her his hand and heart and Cordelia confesses she loves the pilgrim and consents to marry him, notwithstanding the poverty that awaits her.
  • "If Miss Allison consents to take a mother's place to you, I am sure your own mamma, if she could speak to you, would tell you she deserved to have the title; and it would hurt us both very much if you refused to give it.
  • When a man is about to give a great feast in the rainy season and has invited many people, he goes to a weather-doctor and asks him to "prop up the clouds that may be lowering." If the doctor consents to exert his professional powers, he begins to regulate his behaviour by certain rules as soon as his customer has departed.