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Definition of Admissive
1. Adjective. Characterized by or allowing admission. "An Elizabethan tragedy admissive of comic scenes"
Definition of Admissive
1. a. Implying an admission; tending to admit.
Definition of Admissive
1. Adjective. Tending to admit or allow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Admissive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Admissive
Literary usage of Admissive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Swedenborg Library by Emanuel Swedenborg (1881)
"FALSITIES admissive OF GOOD. Evils with man are of various kinds. There are evils
wherewith goods cannot be mixed, and evils wherewith they can be. ..."
2. Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or by Emanuel Swedenborg (1874)
"... are here signified by the daughters of" Laban of the house of Bethuel; but
those which are not thus admissive, are signified by the daughters of Canaan. ..."
3. A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences: Comprising Acoustics, Astronomy by John Pringle Nichol (1860)
"The gen ral absorbing, or, as it has also been terme the admissive power of bodies
with regard heat, has been the subject of laborious ..."
4. The Golden Reed; Or, The True Measure of a True Church by Benjamin Fiske Barrett (1855)
"... this false principle also is such as to be admissive of good and truth to be
mixed with it: but if such a person lives in what is false and evil, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Peculiarities of the Bible: Being an Exposition of the by Elias De La Roche Rendell (1853)
"The circumstance that dreams were admissive of interpretation, ... As they are
not, like much else contained in the Scriptures, admissive of histori- ..."
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