Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By permission or allowance; without prohibition or hindrance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a permissive manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
permissive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a permissive manner
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Examples
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In your hypo, you seem to be saying that if you have an admitted, though well-founded pre-existing hostility to China and you therefore join a group that permits you (either intentionally or permissively) to vent your hostility to China, then no one may comment on the fact that you have a pre-existing hostility toChina.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Forthcoming TNR Piece on Human Rights Watch 2010
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In your hypo, you seem to be saying that if you have an admitted, though well-founded pre-existing hostility to China and you therefore join a group that permits you either intentionally or permissively to vent your hostility to China, then no one may comment on the fact that you have a pre-existing hostility toChina.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Forthcoming TNR Piece on Human Rights Watch 2010
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But, in order for this talent channel to work, the music industry must use its copyrights more permissively and transparently.
Edward Lee: On Being Justin Bieber in the Age of YouTube 2010
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But, in order for this talent channel to work, the music industry must use its copyrights more permissively and transparently.
Edward Lee: On Being Justin Bieber in the Age of YouTube 2010
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-- On the other hand we have permissively allowed them to destroy the quality of life in our public spaces, with panhandling, loitering, petty crimes, urinating and defecating in public.
Blake Fleetwood: We're Paying For Winos To Live There and Get Drunk? 2009
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Obviously, all good things come from God, but they are mediated actively and permissively through all sorts of persons and circumstances.
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So unless the statute is interpreted so narrowly that e.g. even a rape victim is a criminal for calling 911, it has to be interpreted more broadly permissively.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Man Arrested for Calling 911 Over Botched McDonald’s Order: 2009
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A medical officer of Menninger's acquaintance had observed that native Americans in New Mexico raised their children permissively, never raising their hand to them, and allowing them to do as they pleased.
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Soon Peking received from Wu alarming reports in which he accused Yung Wing of elevating the goal American education to status of top priority while permissively allowing the boys to grow lackadaisical in their Chinese studies.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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A medical officer of Menninger's acquaintance had observed that native Americans in New Mexico raised their children permissively, never raising their hand to them, and allowing them to do as they pleased.
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