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Definition of Admitting
1. admit [v] - See also: admit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Admitting
Literary usage of Admitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"It was now contended, on the ground of his conviction, that all the clergy of
the realm had been guilty of praemunire, because by admitting the jurisdiction ..."
2. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"XXXVI Stevens's Influence in his Reconstruction Committee — Conversation with
Baldwin of the Committee — The Committee reports a Resolution for admitting ..."
3. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green (1874)
"j principle on which he insists with much emphasis and repe- admitting tition,
that whatever 'objects,' 'impressions,' or ' ideas ' are ..."
4. The Call of the Hen; Or, The Science of the Selection and Breeding of Poultry by National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Recreational Reading, Walter Hogan, Sherman Dickinson, Harry Reynolds Lewis, Raymond William Gregory, Louis Renou, B. K. Hindse, A. V. Leontovich, Arthur John Arberry (1913)
"others barely admitting one finger between these points; while a very few would
easily admit the ends of three fingers between the tips of the pelvic bones, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1781)
"... videlicet, the admitting him to the copyhold he muft pay this defendant colts
to be tared by a ..."
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