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acquiescence 音标拼音: [ ,ækwi'ɛsəns] n. 默许,默认,无可奈何的同意 默许,默认,无可奈何的同意 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" [ synonym: { assent}, { acquiescence}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Crim. Law) ( a) Submission to an injury by the party injured. ( b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. -- Wharton. [ 1913 Webster] 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, zealousnessACQUIESCENCE, contracts. The consent which is impliedly given by one or bothparties, to a proposition, a clause, a condition, a judgment, or to any actwhatever. 2. When a party is bound to elect between a paramount right and atestamentary disposition, his acquiescence in a state of things whichindicates an election, when he was aware of his rights will be prima facieevidence 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, mustbe decided rather by the circumstances of each case than by any generalprinciple. 1 Swanst. R. 382, note, and the numerous cases there cited. 4. Acquiescence in the acts of an agent, or one who has assumed thatcharacter, 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.)
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