- present participle of consent.
consenting
Example Sentences
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Saddened Observer: Consenting adults are free to date.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2021
Consenting sexual activity between men over the age of 21 was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1981.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018
Consenting adults do exist and may do whatever both freely consent to, even though both adulthood and consent are concepts easily abused and without any clear boundaries.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2017
Consenting to the crossing of the germ line would be another watershed, and the F.D.A.’s open-door meeting in February held the promise of revealing if the public was ready for the moment.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2014
So we see the Divine Light Consenting to darkness that it may return to Light, and Divine Love Consenting to infidelity that it may return to Perfect Love.
From The Prodigal Returns by Staveley, Lilian
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Vocabulary from Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" (1918)
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