Word Finder - consensual

definition

With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting

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Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties

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a consensual contract

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Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition

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consensual motions

It was a consensual relationship because both people wanted to be friends.

The police report said there was a consensual relationship between the young man and young woman.

There was consensual agreement among all the conference attendees that the meetings should start at 9 AM.

There was a consensual agreement to stop the fight.

Throughout the United States, whatever may have been the position in some of them before their independence, the Church has now no position recognized by the State, but is just a body of believers whose relations are governed by contract and with whom ecclesiastical jurisdiction is consensual.

Mutually consensual sexual activity between young people is a normal part of adolescent development and should be clearly distinguished from sexual abuse.

Complaints of sexual harassment may be made if a relationship breaks down or if the student decides it is not truly consensual.

Ironically, the type of explicit, yet consensual sex shown in the Hot Chocolate scene would even not be addressed by AB1179 since it only legislates games that include violence.

But the other Indian bishops have no position recognized by the State and no jurisdiction, except consensual.

Couples in consensual open relationships may not require as much discretion as those seeking extra marital affairs or singles who simply prefer to date married individuals.

Europe hasn't quite got used to the idea we're not consensual.

Parsons proposes an essentially consensual theory of power, in accord with the assumptions of his overall scheme.

Apparently consensual goals may be imposed by the ideology of the powerful.

However, the education debate is in danger of being too consensual.

To use William Gibson's famous phrase, a MUD is a paradigmatic instance of the " consensual hallucination " of cyberspace.

A consensual ecclesiastical jurisdiction is thus created, which has to this extent temporal sanction.

In those provinces of the Anglican communion where the Church is not established by the state, the tendency is not to attempt any external discipline over the laity; but on the other hand to exercise consensual jurisdiction over the clergy and office-bearers through courts nearly modelled on the old canonical patterns.