V. WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS; INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
II. SPECIAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
Permission.
[Antonyms: prohibition.]
[Nouns] permission, leave; allowance, sufferance; tolerance, toleration; liberty, law, license, concession, grace; indulgence (lenity) [more]; favor, dispensation, exemption, release; connivance; vouchsafement.
authorization, warranty, accordance, admission.
permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche, ticket of leave; grant, charter; patent.
[Verbs] permit; give permission, give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede [more]; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.
grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege, license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust (commission) [more].
give carte blanche, give the reins to, give scope to (freedom) [more]; leave alone, leave it to one, leave the door open; open the door to, open the flood gates; give a loose to.
let off; absolve (acquit) [more]; release, exonerate, dispense with.
ask permission, beg permission, request permission, ask leave, beg leave, request leave.
[Adjectives] permitting; permissive, indulgent; permitted; patent, chartered, permissible, allowable, lawful, legitimate, legal; legalized (law) [more]; licit; unforbid, unforbidden; unconditional.
[Adverbs] by leave, with leave, on leave; speciali gratia; under favor of; pace; ad libitum (freely) [more], (at will) [more]; by all means (willingly) [more]; yes (assent) [more].
