permissiblenessn.
/pəˈmɪsᵻblnəs/, U.S. /pərˈmɪsəb(ə)lnəs/ = permissibility n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > quality of being permissible
tolerableness1612
unforbiddenness1665
permissibleness1727
admissibility1765
admissibleness1812
permissibility1845
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Permissibleness, capableness of being permitted.
1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. 443 This use of the transcendental idea would already outstep the limits of its determination and permissibleness.
1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 750/1 The earlier precedents of the Church seeming to favour community of goods, its subsequent history indicating the legitimacy, or at least permissibleness, of individual appropriation.
1936 E. A. Peers Spanish Trag. iii. 93 Article 26 of the Constitution..tacitly recognizes the permissibleness of the vow of obedience.
1974 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. 89 482/1 Even..Augustine is brought to admit..the permissibleness on occasion of prudently hiding the facts under a kind of dissembling.
1996 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 27 Oct. 1 There was, for instance, the Free Speech Movement that argued for the permissibleness of the most vulgar expressions in any and all circumstances.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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