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▪ I. consenting, vbl. n.|kənˈsɛntɪŋ|
[f. consent v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb consent; the giving of consent.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 351 Excusid here of consenting to þis synne. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 51 For myne obedyens and consentyng in that vyce to hym. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. ii. 8 Neither..my sodaine woing, nor sodaine consenting. 1702Rowe Tamerl. iv. i. 1930 There is a kind Consenting in his Eyes.
▪ II. conˈsenting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Agreeing or giving consent (to a proposal or course of action; formerly, also, to an opinion).
a1300Cursor M. 28401 (Cott.), I was consentand to þair dede. c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. iv. 18 He was knowyng and consentyng of a coniuracioun maked aȝeins hym. 1382Wyclif Acts vii. 60 Forsoth Saul was consentynge [so Rhem. & 1611] to his deeth. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 14 The wise are alwayes consenting vnto truth. 1601Shakes. All's Well iii. ii. 80 'Tis but the boldnesse of his hand haply, which his heart was not consenting too. 1761F. Sheridan S. Bidulph I. 144 She must not know that I was consenting to this marriage. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xi. 57 A step to which Northumberland had practically not been a consenting party.
fig.1803Wordsw. To Highland Girl 3 Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head.
2. a. Agreeing together (in opinion or purport); of one mind, unanimous.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 223 Sinonimia, as who would say, like or consenting names. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xviii. 90 [They have] by consenting voices declared a Soveraigne. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xii. 518 The consenting praise of all honest men. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. i. (1875) 416 The clear consenting voice of all his contemporaries.
b. Agreeing, conformable.
1878G. Macdonald Phantastes II. xx. 121 Hammering one part of it to a consenting shape with the rest.
3. consenting adult: an adult who consents to something, esp. to an act of homosexuality; a homosexual.
1957Rep. Comm. Homosexual Offences & Prostitution (Cmnd. 247) 109 We accordingly recommend that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence. 1964Times 16 July 12/4 Chief constables in England and Wales have been asked to inform the Director of Public Prosecutions..before preferring charges over homosexual acts committed in private between consenting adults. 1968‘O. Mills’ Sundry Fell Designs x. 112 No, I'm not a consenting adult. But I'm not sex-starved, either. |