consentingly

English

Etymology

consenting + -ly

Adverb

consentingly (comparative more consentingly, superlative most consentingly)

  1. in a consenting manner, showing consent
    • 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:
      It'll be more sociable," the masseuse suggested, lifting her bag to the table and covering its shiny onyx surface with bottles and polishers. Mrs. Spragg consentingly slipped the rings from her small mottled hands.
    • 1894, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908:
      Yet, as he talked, Dosia became curiously aware that from his position directly across the room he was covertly watching her as she sat consentingly listening to George Sutton, whose round face was bending over very near, his thick coat sleeve pinning down the filmy ruffles of hers as it rested on the carved arm of the little sofa.
    • 1877, Charles Cotton, The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 7:
      I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldom, of which the bare name only affrights so many people.
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