admittancen.
/ədˈmɪt(ə)ns/, U.S. /ədˈmɪtns/ 1.
a. The action of admitting or being admitted as valid or satisfactory; acceptance, sanction. Frequently with of. Now rare.
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the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun]
acceptationa1425
admission?1430
allowancec1443
receipta1500
admittinga1504
admittance1534
confession1546
acceptance1569
entertain1616
conceding1656
reception1660
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [noun]
passage1488
admittance1534
acceptableness1565
avowablenessa1631
acceptability1647
approvableness1820
OK-ness1935
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. A.ivv Syns in this mater betwene vs dysputed Myne admyttance of your wordes notwithstandyng I haue thus fully your part confuted.
1595 B. Barnes Divine Cent. Spirituall Sonnets Ep. Ded. sig. A.2 In gracious admittance of your honourable Patronage.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 53 The Tyre-valiant, or any Tire of Venetian admittance . View more context for this quotation
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 424 All other coynes inhaunced aboue the Par of Exchanges heretofore calculated amongst Merchants, and especially with the admittance of Princes.
1723 F. Foljambe Let. 11 Feb. in T. S. Willan Early Hist. Don Navigation (1965) 155 I do not question their admittance of any clause towards promoting the navigation.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 4/2 System and theory have also found but little admittance in the Turkish military institutions.
1856 tr. Comte de Montalembert Polit. Future Eng. xvi. 248 It has required more than one legislative disposition..to insure its admittance among us.
1876 Canad. Entomologist Mar. 56 Feeble lumpers may be recognized by their admittance of a few more obvious genera.
1913 McClure's Mag. Mar. 45/1 Only for unadulterated blame and execration of militancy was any admittance there or anywhere else.
b. Acknowledgement or admission of the truth of something; an instance of this.
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the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun] > the truth of
admittance1589
the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [noun] > admitting the truth of something
admission?1430
admittance1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 190 This figure is much vsed by our English pleaders..which they call to confesse and auoid..I call it the figure of admittance.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 171 We fall into other absurdities upon the admittance of this tenent.
1757 Crit. Rev. Mar. 223 He has framed them in such a manner..as will not give admittance to this conviction.
1858 Friend 21 Aug. 399/1 The admittance of truths which must sooner or later..bring men to comprehend their rights and their duties.
1872 A. Perrier Good Match I. ii. 28 My silence she took now as an admittance of error.
1882 E. W. Washburn Stud. Early Eng. Lit. viii. 162 The Calvinist urged that the admittance of the notion of merit excluded the Romanist from the possibility of salvation.
1911 School World June 210 I would strongly deprecate the teaching of physics and chemistry merely as applied sciences, understanding by that the admittance of a selective principle outside those sciences themselves.
1944 Chicago Defender 19 Aug. 2/5 Testimony of witnesses bore out the company's frank admittance of racial discrimination.
1984 J. E. Devlin Erskine Caldwell iv. 89 Her unembarrassed admittance that she is ‘hustling’ in Florida.
2005 R. Grinberg & A. Rubinstein Econ. Sociodynamics i. 17 Compliance with the game model conditions and availability of an efficient corporate strategy mean the admittance of the reducibility hypothesis.
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a. The process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place; permission or ability to enter; access. no admittance: a formula used on a sign, notice, etc., to indicate that entry is not permitted; = no entry phr.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > letting in or fact of being let in
inletc1325
intromitting1508
admittance1537
intromission1601
admitty1616
inletting1660
1537 J. Husee Let. 7 Feb. in Lisle Lett. (P.R.O.: SP 3/11/71) f. 89 I must pay..xx s. for his speciall admyttance, and iiij nobles for the admyttance in his chambre [at Lincoln's Inn].
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 37 The space betwene the knots of the ioyntes in the foote, are..round bounched aboue, but beneth hollow, and sinnuous, for the safe admittaunce of the tendons of Muscles.
1593 F. Thynne Let. 2 Dec. in Animaduersions (1875) p. xcvii Whene your Lordship will vouchesafe mee admyttance to your presence.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 66 'Tis Gold Which buyes admittance . View more context for this quotation
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. E2v He came up per ardua..not pulled up by chance, nor by any great admittance.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. iii. 47 There are some Ideas, which have admittance only through one Sense.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments 29 As to the admittance of the weighty and elastick Parts of the Air into the Blood..it seems contrary to Experiments upon Dead Bodies.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlv. 291 There is admittance till ten, for a toll of one stiver each person.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. v. 98 The orifices of these nerves are provided with stoppers which the mind draws up at pleasure to give the animal spirits admittance.
1817 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 77/2 Mr Murray's very appropriate and often-repeated postscript..No admittance behind the scenes.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. ix. 383 He gets admittance through the locked and padlocked Grates.
1845 Rural Repos. 19 July 190/2 The writer repairs to Wallingford, and in an old, clap-boarded, long one-story building,..with ‘no admittance’ over the door, he finds the inventor.
1904 G. Burgess & W. Irwin Picaroons viii. 194 The brilliant letters of an electric sign across the way crossed his eye: ‘Biograph Theatre. Admittance, ten cents.’
1933 E. Waugh Let. May (1980) 75 In parts of Italy ladies are refused admittance to Church in costume that would attract no comment in Westminster Cathedral.
2008 Billboard 8 Mar. 73/1 A donation at the door is required for admittance to the concert.
b. The process or fact of acceding to or being accepted into a position, office, membership of a group, etc., or of being granted a certain status.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > admission to
admission1423
admittinga1504
admittance1550
aggregation1796
1550 Proclam. Wyndyng of Wolles (single sheet) The sayd master and wardeyns..shal haue a testimonyal, or certificat of his allowaunce and admyttaunce vnder the Seale of the Mayre.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. xi. 168 Therfore a sollemne admittance [to office in the Church] is of such necessitie that without it there can be no Church-politie.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxix. 366/1 Without the admittance of any Secondary or Vice-roy to rule there vnder him.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xxxv. 272 The Pope had no admittance unto his ancient claim.
1743 J. Morris Serm. viii. 230 The condition of our admittance into his favor.
1795 J. Gurney Trial J. H. Tooke II. 390 It was a very easy thing to get admittance into this Society; very few were rejected.
1809 Christian Observer June 370/2 He taught in conformity to articles, which that legislature..required him to subscribe, as the ‘sine quà non’ of his admittance into holy orders.
1853 Evangelical Christendom 7 119/2 The great numbers of Protestant gymnasiums..endowed with the right of public schools, examinations, granting admittance to the universities, exemption from military service, etc.
1905 Mind July 551 Pure Sudras of the original division..tried to keep outsiders from gaining admittance into their caste.
2000 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) 25 Apr. c3/1 His school will leave the Colonial Athletic Association and seek admittance to the Patriot League.
3. Law. The action or an act by which a copyholder is put in legally recognized possession of a property; a written record of this. Now historical.
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1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. vi. 76 The Tenants haue no Transcripts of the entries of their admittances.
1696 W. Gilpin Let. 14 Oct. in D. R. Hainsworth Corr. J. Lowther (1983) 312 I told them that there being no words of inheritance in Collin's admittance, his estate expired with himself.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent vi. 98 Who dies before Admittance.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 370 Admittance is the last stage, or perfection, of copyhold assurances.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Copyhold The consent of the lord to the surrender shall be adjudged a good admittance. If the steward accept a fine of a copyholder, it amounts to an admittance. But delivering a copy is no admittance.
1861 Irish Jurist 1 July 130/1 Copyhold estates; and customary estates, passing by surrender and admittance, or by admittance only.
1913 Eng. Rep. 134 655 The payment of a fine by a remainder-man on his admittance to a copyhold.
1998 Social Hist. 23 167 A customary estate was conferred by an admittance from the lord of the manor registered in his court rolls.
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society > society and the community > [noun] > faculty of being admitted or acceptability
admittancea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 219 You are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great admittance . View more context for this quotation
1772 Deb. & Proc. House of Commons anno 1770 VIII. 217 Captain Cole, a gentleman of great admittance, had come to me [etc.].
5. In an alternating current circuit: a measure of the ease of flow of a current, equal to the reciprocal of the impedance (impedance n. 1a). Symbol Y.Admittance can be represented as a complex quantity with a real part equal to the conductance and an imaginary part equal to the susceptance. The SI unit of admittance is the siemens.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > science of measuring > impedance thus measured
admittance1887
1887 O. Heaviside in London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 24 482 It is naturally suggested to call J the ‘admittance’ of the combination. But it is not to be anticipated that this will meet with so favourable a reception as impedance, which term is now considerably used.
1931 B.B.C. Year-bk. 435/1 Admittance, the admittance of a circuit is the reciprocal of its impedance or apparent resistance.
1949 Electronic Engin. 21 145 A method is presented for finding the input admittance of an amplifier.
1977 G. T. Rubaroe Essent. Theory Electronics Hobbyist iv. 30 The breakdown of admittance into conductance and susceptance is illustrated in Figure 4.5.
2007 J. Bird Electr. Circuit Theory & Technol. (ed. 3) xxv. 318/1 The admittance of a circuit is (0.040 + j0.025) S.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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