permittancen.

1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers Ep. Ded. i. sig. *.2 Hauing by your worships fauourable permittance, conuenient oportunity in your seruice.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 133 No wicked Spirit should permittance have, To trouble or abuse them, in the grave.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (vi. 3) ii. 16 Our purposes must be submitted to Gods permittance.

1661 Princess Cloria ii. 182 Her permittance being onely remedies to keep his thoughts alwayes in an appetite, without tasting of that fruit which he so much coveted.

1714 W. Derham Physico-theol. (ed. 3) v. v. 299 When this System of Air comes, by divine Permittance, to be corrupted with poysonous, acrimonious Streams.

1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 19 July in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 149 Provision was Lowered down to me, till the factorey with much adoe could get permitance for me to be got up.

1814 E. Thurlow Doge's Daughter i, in Moonlight 90 My brother sails to-night, Having his permittance right.

1912 Housemaster's Lett. 124 The wilful misuse of them or the callous permittance of them to go blunt and to rust.

1975 Lat. Amer. Perspectives 2 142 The keystone of the structure of mediation is its permittance and use of the popular participation of the peasants.

1996 Jrnl. Public Policy & Marketing (Nexis) 15 Fall 185 Property law and contract law differ markedly in their permittance of tailoring and customization of exchanges.

1887 O. Heaviside in Electrician 3 June 79/2 A telegraph circuit, when reduced to its simplest elements,..still has no less than four electrical constants, which may be most conveniently reckoned per unit length of circuit—viz., its resistance, inductance, permittance, or electrostatic capacity, and leakage conductance.

1908 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 40 58 Dr. Heaviside's permittivity..is measured in terms of the permittance of unit volume.

1936 E. J. Berg Heaviside's Operational Calculus (ed. 2) 182 It is usual to ignore the leakage of conductors, sometimes also the inductance, and sometimes the permittance (permittance is the term used by Heaviside for what he called later capacitance).

1991 Jrnl. Non-crystalline Solids 131 1080 The impedance, admittance, or permittance diagrams of materials, when presented in the complex plane, are often well defined straight lines, or well defined semi-circles.