Also means
to consent
Usage Note
Consentire is slightly more formal than permettere and is common in legal and bureaucratic language. It is followed by a qualcuno di fare ('to allow someone to do something'): gli consento di partire ('I allow him to leave'). It uses avere as its auxiliary in compound tenses.
Examples
"La legge consente questo comportamento."
Natural Translation
The law allows this behaviour.
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