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单词 silence gives consent
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Silence gives consent
c. prov. Silence gives consent. [Compare quot. c1380 at sense 1a]
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Consentir Assez consent qui ne dit mot..(Many, who know not much more Latine, can say, Qui tacet consentire videtur.)]
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 138 Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
1672 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. Silence gives consent.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. vii. 77 The archbishop [Becket] answered that there was a proverb in England that silence gave consent [c1200 in Materials Hist. Becket (Rolls) I. 68 Respondit Archiepiscopus quod nostræ gentis proverbium est quod taciturnus speciem prætendit confitentis].
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. 2 Well then, I take silence for consent.
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