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adjective
1.
habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
2.
granting or denoting permission: a permissive nod.
4.
Genetics. (of a cell) permitting replication of a strand of DNA that could be lethal, as a viral segment or mutant gene.
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Permissive
is always a great word to know.
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Example Sentences
- It is not clear that permissive right-to-carry laws haven't increased violence.
- Second, it has remarkably few begetters, certainly for such a permissive age.
- In any case, being socially tolerant is not the same as being intellectually permissive.
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Word Origin & History
permissive
c.1600, "allowing to pass through," from O.Fr. permissif, from L. permissus (see permission). In sense of "tolerant, liberal" it is first recorded 1956; by 1966 it had definite overtones of sexual freedom.
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