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TACIT CONSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tacit consent mean? 

TACIT CONSENT (noun)
  The noun TACIT CONSENT has 1 sense:

1. (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoingplay

  Familiarity information: TACIT CONSENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TACIT CONSENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

connivance; secret approval; tacit consent

Hypernyms ("tacit consent" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)


 Context examples 


He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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