单词 | permitter |
释义 | permittern. A person who permits or allows something. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > one who permits sufferera1533 permitter1641 sanctioner1846 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 132 The spoiles estimated at 1600000. Crownes..emborsed them that were the Authors or Permitters thereof [It. che l'aueuano permesso]. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 229 The great dispenser or permitter and rector of all the events in the world. 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will iv. ix. 254 If by the Author of Sin, is meant the Permitter..I don't deny that God is the Author of Sin. 1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 45 Author of good, Permitter of distress. 1876 T. Arnold Man. Eng. Lit. ii. i. 401 God is here made, not the permitter only, but the designer, of moral evil. 1919 Sci. Monthly June 538 When we boast that..our so-called ‘civilisation’ has had a mushroom-like growth, let us note that the chain of links of causes leads us quickly back to window glass as one of the prime permitters. 1970 Guardian 6 Mar. 8/2 An Establishment which feels the Permitters have had it all their own way, and the machinery at hand should now be remorselessly turned against them. 2002 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 13 May a8 Membership of the Commission on Human Rights includes such..permitters of the slave trade as Sudan, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641 |
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