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Definition: ACQUIESCING |
ACQUIESCINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Acquiesce |
Date "ACQUIESCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: ACQUIESCING |
| English words defined with "ACQUIESCING": Inacquiescent. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put himself into subjection to another, for his own harm; (though, where he finds a good and wise ruler, he may not perhaps think it either necessary or useful to set precise bounds to his power in all things) prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting their rulers to do several things, of their own free choice, where the law was silent, and sometimes too against the direct letter of the law, for the public good; and their acquiescing in it when so done: for as a good prince, who is mindful of the trust put into his hands, and careful of the good of his people, cannot have too much prerogative, that is, power to do good; so a weak and ill prince, who would claim that power which his predecessors exercised without the direction of the law, as a prerogative belonging to him by right of his office, which he may exercise at his pleasure, to make or promote an interest distinct from that of the public, gives the people an occasion to claim their right, and limit that power, which, whilst it was exercised for their good, they were content should be tacitly allowed. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Korea's workforce is one that has fought hard for labor rights and does not intend on acquiescing to government pressure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The idea of acquiescing in the refusal to execute the treaty will not, I am confident, be for a moment entertained by any branch of this Government, and further negotiation upon the subject is equally out of the question. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ACQUIESCING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "ACQUIESCING" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ACQUIESCING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 默认 (Acquiesce, Acquiesced, Acquiescence, Defaulted, Defaulting). (various references) | ||||
German | hinnehmend (pocketing, putting up with), duldend (conniving). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | acquiescingay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"ACQUIESCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acquiecing, acquierscing, acquiesing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ACQUIESCING" (pronounced a'kwēe"sing) |
| 4 | -e" s i ng | addressing, assessing, blessing, caressing, coalescing, compressing, confessing, depressing, digressing, distressing, dressing, expressing, guessing, impressing, messing, obsessing, oppressing, possessing, pressing, professing, progressing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, repressing, stressing, suppressing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, balancing, basing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, diagnosing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pricing, processing, producing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, rebalancing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, subleasing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-i-n-q-s-u" | |
-3 letters: accusing, caciques. | |
-4 letters: cacique, caiques, cangues, causing, ceasing, cinques, cuisine, guineas, incages, quinces, saucing, siccing, uncages. | |
-5 letters: accuse, acinic, acinus, anisic, caique, cangue, caseic, casein, casing, casini, casque, cinque, cueing, easing, genius, guinea, icings, incage, incase, incise, incuse, queans, quince, quinic, sacque, scenic, sequin, siccan, uncage, uncase, unciae, usance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 51 55 49 45 53 43 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. --.- ..- .. . ... -.-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010001 01010101 01001001 01000101 01010011 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C Q U I E S C I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0051 0055 0049 0045 0053 0043 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3537515543395337434841 |
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