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The biggest nuclear powers historically have sought to control which countries can licitly join the club.

“They have methodically gone after leading technologies around the world, and licitly and illicitly acquired those technologies to build this world-class military designed to defeat ours.”

“It’s always better for someone to use licitly produced, safe medication rather than illicitly produced or illicitly distributed substance, which often have contaminants and other things that are unhealthy for people,” he said.

Diplomats and other North Koreans abroad are expected to pay most of what they earn, licitly or illicitly, to the regime as “loyalty money”.

Faithful attending churches officiated by priests of an ultra-conservative breakaway group, the Fraternity of St. Pius X, can “validly and licitly receive the sacramental absolution of their sins.” the pope wrote.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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