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Definition of Permissibleness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Permissibleness
Literary usage of Permissibleness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... permissibleness, permite»» bility. Lawsuit, H. Action, suit in law. Lawyer, *.
Counsellor, counsel, advocate, attorney, attorney-at-law, solicitor, ..."
2. Journal of Theological Studies (1901)
"And we can more readily understand how St. Paul could admit the permissibleness
of a practice based on such doctrines than how he could make a point of ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1869)
"Perhaps the proper answer to this is, that, to the casuist deciding on the morality
of specific pieces of conduct and their permissibleness or compatibility ..."
4. Charles E. Hughes, the Statesman: As Shown in the Opinions of the Jurist by William Lynn Ransom (1916)
"Upon issues of the inherent fairness and permissibleness of challenged methods
of competition with trade rivals, he prepared several opinions to which ..."
5. Politics for American Christians: A Word Upon Our Example as a Nation by Stephen Colwell (1852)
"... the earlier precedents of the Church seeming to favor community of goods, its
subsequent history indicating the legitimacy, or at least permissibleness, ..."
6. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1910)
"But Judaism reserves for its -own conscience the right to speak on the desirableness
or permissibleness of certain matters, from its own point ..."
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