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permissive adj. 1) referring to any act which is allowed by court order, legal procedure, or agreement. 2) tolerant or allowing of others' behavior, suggesting contrary to others' standards.

permissive adjective acquiescent, allowing, complaisant, discretional, granting, indulgent, lenient, liberal, mild, nonprohibitive, tolerant, tolerating, volitive, yielding
Associated concepts: permissive counterclaim, permissive joinder, permissive statute, permissive use

PERMISSIVE. Allowed; that which may be done; as permissive waste, which is the permitting real estate to go to waste; when a tenant is bound to repair he is punishable for permissive waste. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2400. See Waste.
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The embassy's ability to assist Americans is limited, and dependent on the permissiveness of the security environment in Sudan," the message said.
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In this regard, toward understanding one of the areas for which he is best known, Reiss wrote, My study of premarital sexual permissiveness had to be an exploratory study because there was no developed theory upon which I could build.
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The fall-away trend is because by law much more permissiveness is allowed and Sunday is generally no longer a day of worship.
Letter: Our declining moral values by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
 
 
 
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