Consense

//kənˈsɛns// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    agreement

    "1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=EfP7-iYd120C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&sig=Qiq-5jwSChtKCR2Qz46lReOjk9g In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: …"

Verb
  1. 1
    To agree; to form by consensus.

    "We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for."

Example

More examples

"We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for."

Etymology

Back-formation from consensus.

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