Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being permissible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
permissible ;legitimacy ;allowability . - noun countable A permissible act
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun admissibility as a consequence of being permitted
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Examples
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Thus, one who claims that moral nihilism implies that everything is permissible must intend to denote some kind of permissibility other than moral-let's just call it X-permissibility.
Nonicoclolasos nonicoclolasos 2010
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While outside our borders there is increasing debate between permissibility versus control on the web, 11 million Cuban citizens wonder if 2012 will be the year that we will finally become Internet users.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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In a paper on abortion (The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect, 1967), she used what became a much-cited example to pinpoint fine distinctions in moral permissibility where an action has both good and bad results – the dilemma facing the driver of a suddenly brakeless trolley-bus that would hit five people unless he steered it on to another track into only one person.
Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010
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If the protestors are lacking a clear and resounding call for reform, it is because Washington has denied the permissibility of that voice.
Sean Firko: Occupy Wall Street: Inarticulate Nonsense or Real Politics? Sean Firko 2011
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While outside our borders there is increasing debate between permissibility versus control on the web, 11 million Cuban citizens wonder if 2012 will be the year that we will finally become Internet users.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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While outside our borders there is increasing debate between permissibility versus control on the web, 11 million Cuban citizens wonder if 2012 will be the year that we will finally become Internet users.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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I find the Sufi theories of Prophet Muhammad's excellence very interesting, but too far from sacred texts to be employed in making legal rulings about the permissibility of an act of worship.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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While outside our borders there is increasing debate between permissibility versus control on the web, 11 million Cuban citizens wonder if 2012 will be the year that we will finally become Internet users.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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I find the Sufi theories of Prophet Muhammad's excellence very interesting, but too far from sacred texts to be employed in making legal rulings about the permissibility of an act of worship.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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While outside our borders there is increasing debate between permissibility versus control on the web, 11 million Cuban citizens wonder if 2012 will be the year that we will finally become Internet users.
Yoani Sanchez: Internet for Cubans: A Permanently Impossible Dream? Yoani Sanchez 2012
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