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Answer for the clue "Let ", 9 letters:
permitted
Word definitions for permitted in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: allow , let , countenance ] [ant: forbid , forbid ] make it possible through ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: permit)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Permit \Per*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permitted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Permitting .] [L. permittere, permissum, to let through, to allow, permit; per + mittere to let go, send. See Per- , and Mission .] To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; ...
Usage examples of permitted.
The afflicted were permitted to be near the accused during the examination, and they increasingly charged that the accused were audacious enough to harm them in the presence of authorities.
If any of the legionaries were permitted to return from the Italian expedition, their faithful report of the court and character of Honorius must have tended to dissolve the bonds of allegiance, and to exasperate the seditious temper of the British army.
Yet, her faculties confused, hurried, and in anguish, permitted little more than incoherent ejaculations.
An elegant supper was provided for the entertainment of the bishop, and his Christian friends were permitted for the last time to enjoy his society, whilst the streets were filled with a multitude of the faithful, anxious and alarmed at the approaching fate of their spiritual father.
By an act passed in 1865 Congress had prescribed that before any person should be permitted to practice in a federal court he must take oath asserting that he had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States, had never given aid or comfort to enemies of the United States, and so on.
There were, however, specifications on record as to what mechanical amplification was permitted the management of the Fact, the frequency of the programming and the nights on which public gatherings could be held and the maximum number of people permitted to gather.
Menippea, where everything is permitted and nothing decided, dissolves the metaphysics of Dostoyevsky, whose creative thought is a struggle to reconcile four antinomic freedoms, two of which oppose the other two.
It decided to seek the path of Peace not along the lines of permitted autocracy, but of firmly and thoroughly well administered democracy.
Signor Filippo Barbone and the daughter of the millionnaire was not permitted to languish.
Beer Day Beverage alcohol has not been permitted aboard commissioned vessels of the United States Navy since a benighted Secretary of the Navy named Josephus Daniels decided that captains might get drunk someday and run their ships aground.
Tony kept as solemn a face as the conformation of his benevolent Billiken features permitted.
The step of the Bravo, though so unhesitating, was leisurely, and he found time, in passing up the Piazzetta, to examine the forms, and, when circumstances permitted, the features of all he met.
Hundreds passed near the granite columns, as if they expected to see the Bravo occupying his accustomed stand, in audacious defiance of the proclamation, for so long and so mysteriously had he been permitted to appear in public, that men had difficulty in persuading themselves he would quit his habits so easily.
Vicki, unlike Britch, quite enjoyed the glass walls of the office which permitted the other detectives to continue ogling her as they had when she crossed the room.
On the contrary, there are reasons which compel belief that, in many instances, these vivisections implied the most horrible and prolonged torments that the practice of animal experimentation has ever been permitted to evoke.