consense
UK/kənˈsɛns/
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Australia/kənˈsens/
consense verb: to agree; to form by consensus.
Verb
consense (third-person singular simple present consenses, present participle consensing, simple past and past participle consensed)
- To agree; to form by consensus.
- We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for.1970, Harry Hay, “Western Homophile Conference Keynote Address,” in Speaking for Our Lives, Robert B Ridinger ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=PatzOnRJCf4C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&sig=CF...
- It’s overblown, it isn’t quite as consensus-oriented management as you might think—but did they consense on this over twenty years?1999, Mary Walton, Car http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=3xmDzzNiwiUC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&sig=hxc7iKJixjH3VehPwG1jsRB3JL8
Noun
consense (plural consenses)
- agreement
- In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: …1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=EfP7-iYd120C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&sig=...
- Special thanks to Michele Marini for his revision and his consense to the effort necessary in the writing of the paper.1999, M. Banzi et al., “An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA,” in System Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier ed....
Forms of consense
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | consenses |
| present participle | consensing |
| past participle | consensed |
| past | consensed |
| Noun | |
| plural | consenses |
Origin of consense
Back-formation from consensus.
Questions about consense
- What does consense mean?
- Consense means to agree; to form by consensus.
- What part of speech is consense?
- Consense can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce consense?
- Consense is pronounced /kənˈsɛns/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of consense?
- The past tense of consense is consensed.
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