acquiescement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French acquiescement, equivalent to acquiesce +‎ -ment.

Noun[edit]

acquiescement (plural acquiescements)

  1. (rare) Acquiescence (assent, submission).
    • 1851, William Starbuck Mayo, Romance Dust From the Historic Placer, New York, N.Y.: Geo. P. Putnam; London: Richard Bentley, page 276:
      Though this set a muttering all whose fists had not been greased; yet those who had been paid for backing this proposal, being men of too good a conscience not to earn their hire, stickled so powerfully for their necessitated sovereign, and represented in such colors the desirable happiness and advantage of being once more honored with the title of his loyal vassals, that the acquiescement became general.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From acquiescer (to acquiesce) +‎ -ment (forms nouns from verbs) [from 1527].

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Noun[edit]

acquiescement m (plural acquiescements)

  1. agreement, acquiescence
    Synonym: (literary, dated) acquiescence

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