Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Consent.
- noun A sense or feeling in conjunction or union with another; a mutual feeling.
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- verb To
agree ; to form by consensus. - noun
agreement
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is silly the way liberals and conservatives all consense, purely ideologically but dressed up with polemical sounding excuses, that bankruptcy is better than nationalization.
Levin: Detroit & Wall Street Held to Different Standards -- But We Can't Dwell On It 2010
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There is no hint within the NATO fortress that such questions will worry Albright's experts, or that they will consense towards anything other than making NATO an even greater threat to the diplomatic resolution of world problems.
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Riot! as well as the poor camerafella's wandering aimlessly around the Student Free Space trying to get his comrades together so they could consense about stuff.
"You may not come in here. This is student free space. Excuse me. You're on camera. You are on camera. Do not use brutality. You may not detain us." Ann Althouse 2009
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And, like seanh, I rather doubt that partition is such a transparently good idea that the Senate can simply consense around it without giving it ANY formal consideration.
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Moreover, such policies and executive decisions cannot be executed without a "majority" or "minority" consense of American citizens -- especially those that support such policies and decisions.
New poll shows white women supporting McCain after chosing Palin - Feministing 2008
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Its means that bulling have to be replaced with consense; imperialism with fair trade; agression with frienship.
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But for some reason, I have a problem with my self-consense and tiers..
Shoryuken Durxom 2010
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"Board Of Directors": yes, let us make a group named bod1. in wikiland all groups are consense-groups. so, if there are too big differences, then there are two or more groups. each group manages its own realm.
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I have friends that are gay, some are getting married some are not, some are happy about the whole RIGHT TO some are against it ... wow seems like that is general consense whether your gay or not.
unknown title 2009
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Consensus only requires interested groups in consensing; for example the tech group can consense about tech-specific things without having to get everybody who is involved in the IMC to also consense.
NOLA Indymedia 2009
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