What's the difference between assent and consent?

Assent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.
  • (v.) The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have assented to the new legislation, and the Free State Dail meets to-day.
  • (2) On the day royal assent was finally given to the coalition's controversial Energy Act, the EU's executive arm expressed doubts that British ministers could justify state aid to nuclear which it estimated could reach £17bn.
  • (3) The vast majority of EU states opposed the shift, but assented in order to preserve a semblance of unified policy.
  • (4) The bill gives the unions only three months to get a union member’s signature assenting to the payment of the levy.
  • (5) Since then, the HS2 paving bill has received royal assent and the Commons has overwhelmingly passed two readings of the hybrid bill – essentially the planning application for the London-Birmingham part of the eventual network – and the supreme court has dismissed appeals for a judicial review.
  • (6) As things stand, an agreed bill must be finalised by the Commons no later than 28 February so that it can receive royal assent and become law.
  • (7) The prime minister had been expected to swiftly invoke article 50, the formal two-year process for exiting the EU, after the bill’s royal assent, with reports previously suggesting she would do so this week.
  • (8) Before the bill had even reached royal assent, rumours began to circulate that new legislation was in the pipeline that would academise every school in England by 2020.
  • (9) November 2013 After a final vote expected in October 2013, the Queen is expected to give royal assent to the referendum bill.
  • (10) He added: "The constitution requires that the president must assent to and sign the bill referred to him or her by the national assembly.
  • (11) If Greening gives the go-ahead, construction of the London-to-Birmingham route will be authorised in a parliamentary bill that would receive royal assent in 2015, with building expected to begin the following year.
  • (12) If the family still refuses assenting to therapy after having been confronted with the severe consequences of this disease, the therapist has to decide by himself whether he initiates inpatient treatment even against the patient's will - so far as his life is in danger.
  • (13) The police reform and social responsibility bill received royal assent a couple of weeks ago, meaning she is now able to visit the UK, he said.
  • (14) The UK was set to make history last night when the climate change bill received royal assent and brought into law the world's first legally binding targets for a nation to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
  • (15) Along these lines, Beck describes Fury as a “a big socialist”, probably to get his goat, but Fury simply nods his assent.
  • (16) We have disclosed everyone who has donated from the time of royal assent in accord with our commitment.
  • (17) He advised the Queen to create an annual Queen’s medal for music, to which she assented.
  • (18) Many people in the Catholic third of the population had never given their assent to its existence.
  • (19) If King, an apostle of non-violence and advocate for the poorest of the poor, were alive today, what would he make of President Obama's careless-with-life drone assassinations, his bullying of journalists and whistleblowers, his assent to slashing Social Security via his Scrooge-like "deficit commission"?
  • (20) "It's far better for us to be in a process where we are both looking for change, and require mutual assent, than for us to agree the situation for the other EU countries, and then ask them to agree for changes for the UK.

Consent


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
  • (v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.
  • (v. t.) To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.
  • (n.) Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.
  • (n.) Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.
  • (n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
  • (n.) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.
  • (n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
  • (2) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (3) This paper raises other issues for consideration, including problems associated with HIV testing, confidentiality, informed consent and the dilemmas facing those involved in the treatment of patients suffering from HIV infection.
  • (4) This article examines current statutory and common law analyses of malpractice issues in transplantation, with particular attention given to issues of informed consent as they arise both for the organ donor and donee.
  • (5) In addition, special legislation relating to adolescents, particularly legislation or court decisions concerning parental consent for contraception or abortion for a minor, has an important influence on the access that sexually active young people have to services.
  • (6) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
  • (7) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (8) 1 Desferrioxamine mesylate (DM) (10 mg kg-1 = 15.24 mumol kg-1) was given by intramuscular injection to five healthy subjects and to six patients with haemochromatosis, after informed consent.
  • (9) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
  • (10) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
  • (11) Consent forms are of no benefit to the physician or the patient if they are worded poorly or put to poor use.
  • (12) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (13) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
  • (14) Secretory phase endometrial biopsy specimens were taken, with informed consent, as an outpatient procedure.
  • (15) Having given my consent to Pavid's love declaration, I went home and properly lost my mind.
  • (16) It raises issues of informed consent, coercion, and trust in the physician patient relationship.
  • (17) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (18) Sometimes naked images are taken of people without their knowledge or consent.
  • (19) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
  • (20) Ashley Cole has joined LA Galaxy after his contract at Roma was terminated by mutual consent .