Crossword-Solution: PERMISSIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Permissive | a. | Permitting; granting leave or liberty. |
| Permissive | a. | Permitted; tolerated; suffered. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| PERMISSIVE | anagram | IMPRESSIVE |
We have 28 clues for the answer “PERMISSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Not doing much disciplining | 1 answer |
| Like a teacher who lets you curse | 1 answer |
| facultative | 3 answers |
| Broad-minded | 4 answers |
| ASSUASIVE | 26 answers |
| NONPROFIT | 39 answers |
| consenting | 41 answers |
| Conciliatory | 42 answers |
| endorsing | 42 answers |
| permitting | 43 answers |
| Pampering | 43 answers |
| appeasing | 43 answers |
| Tractable. | 46 answers |
| clement | 46 answers |
| Pliable | 47 answers |
| allowing | 50 answers |
| Obliging | 51 answers |
| authorising | 52 answers |
| assenting | 52 answers |
| subservient | 54 answers |
| Accommodating | 55 answers |
| acquiescent | 55 answers |
| charitable | 56 answers |
| Easy-going | 58 answers |
| tolerant | 61 answers |
| Lenient | 62 answers |
| Liberal | 64 answers |
| Deferential | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PERMISSIVE (5)
Thus I embold’nd spake, and freedom us’d Permissive, and acceptance found, which gain’d This answer from the gratious voice Divine.
Newman, filled with enthusiasm at God’s list of perfections, continues the passage which I began to quote to you by a couple of pages of a rhetoric so magnificent that I can hardly refrain from adding them, in spite of the inroad they would make upon our time.(294) He first enumerates God’s attributes sonorously, then celebrates his ownership of everything in earth and Heaven, and the dependence of all that happens upon his permissive will.
Sith ’twas my fault to give the people scope, ’Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them For what I bid them do; for we bid this be done When evil deeds have their permissive pass And not the punishment.
Thus I embold'nd spake, and freedom us'd Permissive, and acceptance found, which gain'd This answer from the gratious voice Divine.
Thus I, for one, regret the supersession of the old Puritan unity, founded on theology, but embracing all types from Milton to the grocer, by that newer Puritan unity which is founded rather on certain social habits, certain common notions, both permissive and prohibitive, in connection with Particular social pleasures.
Quotes with PERMISSIVE (3)
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right. Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, a…
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Onion.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2001–2014).