non-permissiveadj.

1949 Public Opinion Q. 13 529/2 When they raise questions which must be raised in any research plan they are invidiously labeled as ‘overly non-permissive’.

1967 Punch 27 Dec. 976/1 We can't simply go back one square, trying to apply to Them what our non-permissive parents practised on Us.

1973 S. Fisher Female Orgasm iv. 102 Femininity seemed to be maximized by a parental orientation that was nonpermissive and punitive.

1998 Churches & Soc. Issues in 20th-cent. Brit. vi. 185 The Misuse of Drugs Act was passed in 1964 as a deterrent to non-medicinal drug-taking—almost the only non-permissive Act of the decade.

1962 Science 25 May 688/1 The enzyme that converts dCMP to dHMP fails to appear in the infected, nonpermissive bacterial host.

1972 Nature 16 June 371/2 The small DNA tumour viruses..share the property of inducing nondividing cells which they infect to initiate a round of DNA synthesis; if the cells are non-permissive and survive, they subsequently mitose.

1988 BioFactors 1 137/2 Experiments with a temperature-sensitive mutant, defective in E1 activity, showed an inability to ubiquitinate either histones or cytoplasmic proteins at the nonpermissive temperature.

1994 New Scientist 25 June 15/1 Virologists rank hosts into three classes: ‘permissive’ hosts are the most susceptible, and die after eating perhaps 50 or 100 polyhedra; ‘semipermissive’ hosts survive doses of millions of polyhedra, while ‘nonpermissive’ hosts are immune.