Ascent meaning

Noun: ascent

Pronunciation: (u’sent)

Ascent meaning:

• Climbing, moving up or going up
• An upward slope or grade

William Gurnall – Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Mohandas Gandhi – Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason,to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Ambrose Bierce – One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney’s position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

Abraham Lincoln – The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Sample sentences:

1. Unless the president gives his assent to a bill the parliament passes, it cannot become a law/ an act.
2. That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
3. Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
4. You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
5. I think it has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting royal assent by June. Perhaps the most compelling point that Mr. Reid makes is the glaring contrast between the conservative platform promises and what we actually find in the accountability act.
6. We urge the President of India not to give his assent to this undemocratic legislation, and initiate public debate on the complex causes of conflict, rather than treat it as a law and order problem.
7. In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
8. Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.
9. The temple of the god stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not.
10. A major orchestra has to put forth the great masterpieces that have stirred, and continue to stir, assent and dissent.