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consentual

[ kuhn-sen-choo-uhl ]

adjective

, Law.
  1. involving or carried out by mutual consent:

    a consentual divorce.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of consentual1

consent + -al 1, with -u- after consensual, or by association with phonetically similar accentual, eventual, etc.

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