OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 18979

acquiescent

/æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aquiescente
willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
This view is reflected in the novelist's stock portrait of the white-man-in-exile's dusky mistress; an acquiescent shadow, who comes to life only if thrown aside, when, sinister an…