consenter

Updated: May 3, 2025

And now began I to labour to call again time that was past; wishing a thousand times twice told, that the day was yet to come, when I should be tempted to such a sin! concluding with great indignation, both against my heart, and all assaults, how I would rather have been torn in pieces, than found a consenter thereto.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01

Then the young calf's mother comes on the scene and asks her to spare her little pansy blossom not to blight his life with the frost of her follies. And of course she consents again. She's the great consenter always in the hands of friends, like an American politician. "The difficulty of saying nay to earnest pleading" prevents a mesalliance.

William Cowper Brann - Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01

Would to GOD," she added with a sigh, "that you had never met this man!" "I dare say it would have been better for me, on the whole," he replied. "But then, my dear, a man like myself is always meeting people whom it would have been better not to have met. Like will to like, I suppose. Given the active villain and the passive consenter, and they are sure to meet.

Wilkie Collins - Blind Love