Permission
[pə'mɪʃ(ə)n] or [pɚ'mɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) approval to do something; 'he asked permission to leave'.
Editor: Sweeney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Leave, license, liberty, allowance, consent, permit.
Editor: Rena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Leave, license, dispensation, allowance, liberty, consent, sufferance,compliance, endurance
ANT:Prohibition, refusal, denial, prevention, hinderance, resistance
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- I needed no second permission; though I was by this time in such a state of consternation and agitation, that my legs shook under me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He said that if he had permission he would move so and so (pointing out how) against the Confederates, and that he could whip them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I must beg permission, Sir Percival, to speak a few words to you in private, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- By a great amount of persistence I got permission from my mother to go on the local train as a newsboy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We gratefully thank your ladyship, I said; but we ask your permission to do what is right in this matter by giving up our keys. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Harriet was to sit again the next day; and Mr. Elton, just as he ought, entreated for the permission of attending and reading to them again. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Not to day, said I; certainly next week, with Worcester's permission. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My hurried inquiry if I might peep in, was answered with a free permission; and, looking through the glass, I saw her sitting at her work. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Oliver availed himself of the kind permission, and fell to the floor in a fainting fit. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now I myself am beginning to lose heart, and I should like, with your permission, to pass over the question of possibility at present. Plato. The Republic.
- With your permission. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She was gone out of the Lock-house as soon as he gave her this permission, and her tottering steps were on the road again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Hubbard was one of the Commissioners, and he obtained permission to have Bell’s first telephone placed on a small table in the Department of Education. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He did not take his leave until he had obtained her permission to write to her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Checker: Wendy