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ADMITTANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of admitting someone to enter
Example:
the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic
Synonyms:
admission; admittance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("admittance" is a kind of...):
entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admittance"):
readmission (the act of admitting someone again)
matric; matriculation (admission to a group (especially a college or university))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The right to enter
Synonyms:
access; accession; admission; admittance; entree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("admittance" is a kind of...):
right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admittance"):
door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))
Derivation:
admit (allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of)
Context examples:
After many fruitless attempts to gain admittance to the prison, he found a strongly grated window in an unguarded part of the building, which lighted the dungeon of the unfortunate Muhammadan, who, loaded with chains, waited in despair the execution of the barbarous sentence.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I began to think that this house must belong to some person of great note among them, because there appeared so much ceremony before I could gain admittance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He went to call indeed; but he was perhaps relieved to be denied admittance; perhaps, in his heart, he preferred to speak with Poole upon the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary bondage, and to sit and speak with its inscrutable recluse.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"My own loss is great," he continued, "in being obliged to leave so agreeable a party; but I am the more concerned, as I fear my presence is necessary to gain your admittance at Whitwell."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When we arrived at the island, which was about eleven in the morning, one of the gentlemen who accompanied me went to the governor, and desired admittance for a stranger, who came on purpose to have the honour of attending on his highness.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When I was just preparing to pay my attendance on the emperor of Blefuscu, a considerable person at court (to whom I had been very serviceable, at a time when he lay under the highest displeasure of his imperial majesty) came to my house very privately at night, in a close chair, and, without sending his name, desired admittance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This is the court style, and I found it to be more than matter of form: for, upon my admittance two days after my arrival, I was commanded to crawl upon my belly, and lick the floor as I advanced; but, on account of my being a stranger, care was taken to have it made so clean, that the dust was not offensive.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
