ACQUIESCENCE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

2.
n.

Submission to an injury by the party injured.

3.
n.

Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. p. 17