Crossword clues for acquiescence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acquiescence \Ac`qui*es"cence\, n. [Cf. F. acquiescence.]
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
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(Crim. Law)
Submission to an injury by the party injured.
Tacit concurrence in the action of another.
--Wharton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "act of acquiescing," from French acquiescence, noun of action from acquiescer (see acquiesce). Meaning "silent consent" is recorded from 1640s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. 2 (context legal English) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
WordNet
n. acceptance without protest
agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly" [syn: assent]
Wikipedia
In law, acquiescence occurs when a person knowingly stands by without raising any objection to the infringement of their rights, while someone else unknowingly and without malice aforethought makes a claim on their rights. Consequently, the person whose rights are infringed loses the ability to make a claim against the infringer, or succeed in an injunction suit due to the infringer's conduct. The term is most generally a kind of " permission" given by silence or passiveness.
Usage examples of "acquiescence".
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.
Let me ask you why many of us who are opposed to slavery upon principle give our acquiescence to a Fugitive Slave law?
The proposed acquiescence of the National Executive in any reasonable temporary State arrangement for the freed people is made with the view of possibly modifying the confusion and destitution which must at best attend all classes by a total revolution of labor throughout whole States.
The new liberal constitution of Venezuela having gone into effect with the universal acquiescence of the people, the government under it has been recognized and diplomatic intercourse with it has opened in a cordial and friendly spirit.
The conference came to an end by mutual acquiescence, without producing an agreement of views upon the several matters discussed, or any of them.
He renounced these at once, with the greatest vehemence, and declared his acquiescence in my faith.
Noble grief there is in him, and noble melancholy can come upon him, but acquiescence is his last word.
Without a word of acquiescence or acknowledgment, he turned to hobble in the direction of the tarn.
When Pahni and Bhapa bowed in acquiescence, he smiled crookedly and did the same.
Their attachment also to the ancient royal family had been much weakened by their habits of submission to the Danish princes, and by their late election of Harold or their acquiescence in his usurpation.
Great Britain, her ready acquiescence in the transfer of Corsica to France, and the encouragement of the French minister Choiseul, emboldened the Spanish court to revive its pretensions to these islands.
This bill which had received the reluctant acquiescence of his majesty, was read a first time on the 5th of March, and was ordered to be read on the twelfth of the same month.
Tyrold did justice to the sincerity of this offer: and the cheerful acquiescence of lessened reluctance, raised her higher in that esteem to which her constant mind invariably looked up, as the summit of her chosen ambition.
It will not do to take acquiescence for grantedalthough we act for her good.
In most cases, acquiescence need only be a last resort when attempts to stop the attack have failed.