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Word Meanings - PERMITTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.

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  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • LEAVED
    Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
  • PERMITTER
    One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
  • LEAVENING
    1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
  • PERMITTEE
    One to whom a permission or permit is given.
  • LEAVELESS
    Leafless. Carew.
  • PERMISSION
    The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. Syn. -- Leave; liberty; license. -- Leave,
  • PERMITTANCE
    The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.
  • LEAVEN
    alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
  • ALLOWANCE
    A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission;
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • LEAVENOUS
    Containing leaven. Milton.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • LEAVER
    One who leaves, or withdraws.
  • LEAVE
    To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
  • LEAVES
    pl. of Leaf.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • CLEAVER
    One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
  • FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
    Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
  • PARKLEAVES
    A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
  • CLEAVELANDITE
    A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
  • CLEAVE
    clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
  • FORLEAVE
    To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
  • SLEAVED
    Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • DISLEAVE
    To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

 

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