WordNet
n. (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing [syn: connivance, secret approval]
Usage examples of "tacit consent".
The kingdoms of Armenia and Iberia were permitted, by the mutual,though tacit consent of both empires, to resume their doubtful neutrality.
Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers.
The confessors scrutinized and alarmed the conscience of their votaries, and a rigorous penance was imposed on those who had received the communion from a priest who had given an express or tacit consent to the union.
The lowdown (which is, of course, the secret and profound view) on life is that our normal sensation of self is a hoax or, at best, a temporary role that we are playing, or have been conned into playing--with our own tacit consent, just as every hypnotized person is basically willing to be hypnotized.
Lady Ombersley, gathering that she had received a tacit consent to Mr.
Victor-it was not long before he changed his mind and gave his tacit consent that I should call him that.
He will resist the temptation, for he wants to be God, and the only divinity we know is the tacit consent to every human act, to every crime.