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Definition of the day : « permissive »

  • adj lenient
Example sentences :
  • Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • She smiled at last, with permissive recognition, and Gates came forward.
  • Extract from : « Annie Kilburn » by William Dean Howells
  • Instead of being compulsory the Act, should an Act be passed, was to be permissive.
  • Extract from : « The History of the Post Office » by Herbert Joyce
  • Therefore the consequent will of God, which has sin for its object, is only permissive.
  • Extract from : « Theodicy » by G. W. Leibniz
  • There is precisely the case wherein the will of a wise mind is only permissive.
  • Extract from : « Theodicy » by G. W. Leibniz
  • We have also releasing or permissive function; and we have transmissive function.
  • Extract from : « The Making of Arguments » by J. H. Gardiner
  • Do not be too sure about it when it is placable and permissive.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) » by Alexander Maclaren
  • But as these laws were permissive and not prohibitory, the evil was not restrained.
  • Extract from : « Grappling with the Monster » by T. S. Arthur
  • In restricting some of the permissive clauses of the Law, on the other hand, he acted precisely in the same spirit.
  • Extract from : « Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) » by Walter Richard Cassels
  • Permissive powers exist for County Councils to enforce compulsory attendance.
  • Extract from : « The Framework of Home Rule » by Erskine Childers