Difference between Consent and Accept

What is the difference between Consent and Accept?

Consent as a verb is to express willingness, to give permission. while Accept as a verb is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour or with approval.

Consent

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Voluntary agreement or permission, not unlike assent consent can be achieved by passively not refusing.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To express willingness, to give permission. To cause to sign a consent form.

Example sentence: If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Accept

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To receive, especially with a consent, with favour or with approval.To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.To endure patiently.(commerce) To agree to pay.To receive officially; as, to accept the report of a committee.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Accepted.

Example sentence: I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

We hope you now know whether to use Consent or Accept in your sentence.

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