admissibilityn.
/ədˌmɪsᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ədˌmɪsəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The quality of being admissible (in various senses). Cf. admissibleness n.
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society > law > rule of law > [noun] > legally permissible or admissible
allowableness1622
admissibility1765
admissibleness1861
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > quality of being permissible
tolerableness1612
unforbiddenness1665
permissibleness1727
admissibility1765
admissibleness1812
permissibility1845
1765 E. Wynne Miscellany 125 The merits of this very question (as to the perpetual admissibility of Founder's kin) were agitated so far back as the year 1681.
1776 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 4 2058 The Counsel for the Defendant objected to the Admissibility, of the Evidence of a reputed Marriage only.
1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 11 290 A hybrid word, and therefore of equivocal admissibility.
1849 W. M. Best Treat. Princ. Evid. i. i. §5. 82 ‘The admissibility of evidence’—s a matter of law, but the weight or value of the evidence is matter of fact.
1860 Cincinnati Commerc. 29 Dec. 3/2 The Chicago Platform [of the Republicans] was framed with a view to recognizing the admissibility of a doctrine of absolute non-intervention.
1917 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 11 294 A case involving the admissibility of a legal civil proceeding against a Belgian mail ship.
1966 Washington Post 14 June A7/1 Here are excerpts from yesterday's Supreme Court opinion on the admissibility of statements obtained in questioning of a person in police custody.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 Apr. xvii. 3/5 What a college may or may not be able to do in terms of financial assistance and admissibility.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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