permiss
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rhetorical device in which a thing is predicated on the decision of one's opponent.
Example Sentences
- "The catheter was connected through a forked tube either with electromanometer (or a mercury manometer), or with a pressurized reservoir system through a cock permissing to switch arbitrarily one or the other."
- "It caused me to remenisce about the night that we had snuck off to the river, permissing things to naturally parallel into place."
- "In addition, I am advised by these women prisoners that Matron Jacobz has demanded that they surrender all their statements and memoranda for their defence to her in order that she read them and that she insists on this being done before the women are permissed to leave the women's section of the prison for the purpose of consultation with their defence lawyers."