Permitted vs Licit - What's the difference?
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(permit)
*
Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
* Undated , (anonymous translator),
* 1896 ,
* 2008 , July 27, Jeremy Seabrook, "
(legal) Explicitly established or constituted by law.
* 1913 , Joseph Selinger, "
Permitted is a related term of licit.
As a verb permitted
is (permit).As an adjective licit is
not forbidden by formal or informal rules.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.
licit
English
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, [...]
Obama and the illusion of leadership", The Guardian ,
- [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.