Word Meanings - ASSENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

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• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• DEBATEMENT
  Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• CONTRADICTION
  1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• PRETENDED
  Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• PRETENDENCE
  The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• DEBATER
  One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.
• DISGUSTFUL
  Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
• NOISY
  1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• DISASSENT
  To dissent.