Allowable vs Licit - What's the difference?
allowable | licit | Related terms |
Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
(obsolete) Praiseworthy.
Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
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* 1896 ,
* 2008 , July 27, Jeremy Seabrook, "
(legal) Explicitly established or constituted by law.
* 1913 , Joseph Selinger, "
Allowable is a related term of licit.
As adjectives the difference between allowable and licit
is that allowable is appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable while licit is not forbidden by formal or informal rules.allowable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (permissible) levefulDerived terms
* allowableness * allowablylicit
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Let it not be in any way licit to anyone among men to infringe this page of our confirmation, or to contravene it with rash daring.
- You seem to have been very much offended because your father talks a little sculduddery after dinner, which it is perfectly licit for him to do, [...]
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- [T]he vanity of efforts to deter humanity from following this licit and highly profitable mobility, clearly indicate the limits of their [leaders'] power.
- The contract validly made and consummated is dissolved by death alone. However, the Church must determine what is required for a valid and licit marriage contract.