licit

• By similar licit or illicit means the writers incarcerated in the swing tanks glommed onto typewriters and mimeographs and continued their interrupted work, mainly in the speculative and noir genres. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
• Probably it was for the best, because his growing feeling for her was not licit, and needed to be abated. —  Zombie Lover
• (Sure one can come up with scenarios where it may be licit, but, in the scope of attack options, aerial bombardment does not even offer the pretense of attempting to preserve that which is sacred while extricating evil.) —  Vox Nova
• If a man's conscience tells him that something is morally licit, and competent authority tells him otherwise, he will often be well advised to refrain from the activity in question in deference to competent authority. —  JIMMY AKIN.ORG
• Even if the act of the mother and the father in conceiving the child was not licit, the new human life that is the fruit of their participation in the act of creation is good. —  Catholic Exchange

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