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assentations

assentations is the plural of assentation.

Meaning of assentation

Noun

assentation (countable and uncountable, plural assentations)

  1. Insincere or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.
    • August 10, 1749 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son
      Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.

Questions about assentations

What is assentations the plural of?
Assentations is the plural of assentation.

Words near assentations in the dictionary

  1. assemblés
  2. Assen
  3. assent
  4. assentaneous
  5. assentation
  6. assentations
  7. assentator
  8. assentatorily
  9. assentators
  10. assentatory
  11. assented

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