Acquiescence

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acquiescence \Ac`qui*es"cence\, n. [Cf. F. acquiescence.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.


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     2. (Crim. Law)
        (a) Submission to an injury by the party injured.
        (b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. --Wharton.
            [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acquiescence
       n 1: acceptance without protest
       2: agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he
          gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from
          the assembly" [syn: {assent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "acquiescence":
     OK, Quakerism, acceptance, acceptation, acception, accession,
     accommodation, accord, accordance, adaptation, adaption,
     adjustment, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice,
     agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, agreement in principle,
     alacrity, allegiance, amenability, approbation, approval, ardor,
     assent, assentation, assurance, assuredness, aye, belief, blessing,
     certainty, cheerful consent, complaisance, compliance, concurrence,
     confidence, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity,
     congruity, connivance, consent, consistency, conventionality,
     cooperativeness, correspondence, credence, credit, credulity,
     deference, dependence, docility, duteousness, dutifulness,
     eagerness, endorsement, enthusiasm, faith, favorable disposition,
     favorableness, fealty, flexibility, forwardness, gameness,
     general agreement, goodwill, harmony, hearty assent, homage, hope,
     humbleness, humility, keeping, kneeling, line, loyalty,
     malleability, meekness, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance,
     nonviolent resistance, obedience, obediency, obeisance, observance,
     okay, orthodoxy, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity,
     permission, pliability, pliancy, promptitude, promptness, quietism,
     ratification, readiness, reception, receptive mood, receptiveness,
     receptivity, reconcilement, reconciliation, reliance, reliance on,
     resignation, resignedness, responsiveness, right mood, sanction,
     service, servility, servitium, stock, store, strictness,
     subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal,
     suit and service, suit service, supineness, support, sureness,
     surety, suspension of disbelief, tractability, traditionalism,
     trust, uncomplainingness, ungrudgingness, uniformity, unloathness,
     unreluctance, warm assent, welcome, willing ear, willing heart,
     willingness, yielding, zeal, zealousness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ACQUIESCENCE, contracts. The consent which is impliedly given by one or both
  parties, to a proposition, a clause, a condition, a judgment, or to any act
  whatever.
      2. When a party is bound to elect between a paramount right and a
  testamentary disposition, his acquiescence in a state of things which
  indicates an election, when he was aware of his rights will be prima facie
  evidence of such election. Vide 2 Ves. Jr. 371; 12 Ves. 136 1 Ves. Jr. 335;
  3 P. Wms. 315. 2 Rop. Leg. 439.
      3. The acts of acquiescence which constitute an implied election, must
  be decided rather by the circumstances of each case than by any general
  principle. 1 Swanst. R. 382, note, and the numerous cases there cited.
      4. Acquiescence in the acts of an agent, or one who has assumed that
  character, will be equivalent to an express authority. 2 Bouv. Inst. n.
  1309; Kent, Com. 478; Story on Eq. Sec. 255; 4 W. C. C. R. 559; 6 Miss. R.
  Sec. 193; 1 John. Cas. 110; 2 John. Cas. 424 Liv. on Ag. 45; Paley on, Ag.
  by Lloyd, 41 Pet. R. 69, 81; 12 John. R. 300; 3 Cowen's R. 281; 3 Pick. R.
  495, 505; 4 Mason's R. 296. Acquiescence differs from assent. (q.v.)