Definition of "acquiescence" []

• Passive assent or agreement without protest. (noun)
• The state of being acquiescent. (noun)

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• "Mr. Lieberman has been able to shield personal condemnation because of the anti-Semitic taboo, but his behavior and actions have become so outrageous, so intolerable and so duplicitous that acquiescence is no longer acceptable."
• "I will continue to point the finger outwards as well as inwards because comfort and acquiescence is a dangerous thing."
• "He bowed low in acquiescence, though he would willingly have left her there."