Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who permits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who permits.
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- noun One who
permits .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Je peux me permitter de vous dire que la séparation de Mr Frog et vous est passée à une façon très digne?
le mariage 2008
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Sin, some the permitter of sin, while some are sure He could not consistently, with his own perfections, either authorize sin or grant to sinners a permit.
An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell
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Author of good as the Author of all things, without whom nothing either good or evil can happen; not only the permitter of evil, but in a few instances, in the excess of His power, the cause of it also.
Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907
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And why is the Giver of the divine the permitter of those tremendous passions, which are not without their glory, but which wreck so many human lives?
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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He is not so much the Author of good as the Author of all things, without whom nothing either good or evil can happen; not only the permitter of evil, but in a few instances, in the excess of His power, the cause of it also.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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