Permitted vs Allowable - What's the difference?
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(permit)
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Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
(obsolete) Praiseworthy.
As a verb permitted
is past tense of permit.As an adjective allowable is
appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.permitted
English
Verb
(head)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.