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  2. Assent - Wikipedia

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    Assent can refer to: Assent (Belgium) , a village between Bekkevoort and Diest; Assent (philosophy), the mental act of accepting a statement as true;

  3. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  4. Grammar of Assent - Wikipedia

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    The first is entitled "Assent and Apprehension", which deals with believing what one does not understand. The second, entitled "Assent and Inference", addresses the issue of believing what cannot be absolutely proven. Both parts deal with assent or belief. The first part discussed the relationship between assent and apprehension—what level of ...

  5. Dissent - Wikipedia

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    Sticker art arguing that dissent is necessary for democracy.. Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual.

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Illative sense - Wikipedia

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    He discovered that real assent, [4] i.e. firm belief, as opposed to notional assent, [5] comes about, not through ordinary syllogisms, [6] but by a mysterious cumulation of probabilities of lived experience. [7] There must be, therefore, in the mind a power that collects, accumulates, and connects probabilities to a higher degree of certainty.

  8. Damning with faint praise - Wikipedia

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    Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. — "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) [5]

  9. Le Roy le veult - Wikipedia

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    Royal assent was occasionally given in English, though more usually in the traditional Norman French fashion. [11] The practice of recording parliamentary statutes in French or Latin ceased by 1488 and statutes have been published in English ever since. [10] The phrase Le Roy le veult was also used in the Parliament of Ireland (13th century ...