Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being admitted or allowed. Sometimes spelled
admittible .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admissible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
admitted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving to be allowed to enter
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Examples
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So these same human beings who, in a perfect world, would have no black men ever touch a white woman while, of course, keeping black women sexually available to white men, will pass civil rights legislation because they have run out of legal, publicly-admittable reasons to oppose it.
Archive 2009-06-01 Steven Barnes 2009
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So these same human beings who, in a perfect world, would have no black men ever touch a white woman while, of course, keeping black women sexually available to white men, will pass civil rights legislation because they have run out of legal, publicly-admittable reasons to oppose it.
Ah may be wrong, but I is consistent Steven Barnes 2009
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Mrs Constable interposed with one single emphatic epithet, not admittable to the ears of this generation; but Andrew resumed, and went on.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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It is based on hearsay (potentially later admittable as an admission by a party oponent), which is enough for a warrant, but not enough to convict.
Articles 2009
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