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permissively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

Syllables
per-mis-sive-ly
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a permissive manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English permissive Middle English -ly English -ly English permissively From permissive + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more permissively (comparative) most permissively (superlative)

Questions

What does permissively mean?
In a permissive manner.
Where does permissively come from?
Etymology tree English permissive Middle English -ly English -ly English permissively From permissive + -ly.

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