Adjective : a permissive nod. From Dictionary.com.
He gestured permissively, and I edged sideways into the comfortable bucket seat beside him. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
When kids are treated permissively they do not learn personal responsibility for their actions. From Wordnik.com. [The New American Schoolhouse] Reference
He waved a hand permissively towards his desk, and I pressed the buttons on his phone to get back to where I'd been. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
But, in order for this talent channel to work, the music industry must use its copyrights more permissively and transparently. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Lee: On Being Justin Bieber in the Age of YouTube] Reference
I don't believe in deleting comments or banning anyone other than for extreme acts of deliberate disruption, a standard I would apply very permissively. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
The sins of Judas, and the crucifixion of the Saviour, were as unchangeably decreed, permissively, as the coming of the Saviour into the world was decreed positively. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference
Michael having waved me permissively towards his telephone, I reached my meteorological colleague in Miami and shocked him into believing that Lazarus had nothing on P. Stuart. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
On the other hand we have permissively allowed them to destroy the quality of life in our public spaces, with panhandling, loitering, petty crimes, urinating and defecating in public. From Wordnik.com. [Blake Fleetwood: We're Paying For Winos To Live There and Get Drunk?] Reference
A medical officer of Menninger's acquaintance had observed that native Americans in New Mexico raised their children permissively, never raising their hand to them, and allowing them to do as they pleased. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Interests of the Child] Reference
Soon Peking received from Wu alarming reports in which he accused Yung Wing of elevating the goal American education to status of top priority while permissively allowing the boys to grow lackadaisical in their Chinese studies. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference
GTK, being more permissively licensed, was more widespread. From Wordnik.com. [tecosystems] Reference
You can steer the project, sure, but you must ask assignment of copyright, or only accept permissively licensed patches. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Open Source Software] Reference
These take thought, at least ostensibly or permissively, for the temporal welfare of the laity, as well as for their own. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Marketers that engage and converse with 'YOU' to create better products, communicate and sell permissively - will win today!. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The End of the Affair, deeply enamored of Greene's chiseled, controlled and yet blissfully, somehow permissively emotional prose. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
In licensing this monstrous wrong, as we permissively do, wherein have we the advantage of the toad as regards the reasoning faculty?. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
A nuclear conflict will take place in South Asia, only if the United States wants it and lets Pakistan permissively cross the nuclear threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Father Greer smiled permissively over the rim of his glass of whisky and water; it was strong and good, and the food was good also, and abundant. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Music] Reference
As to three of these texts, it is a known Hebraism to express things in an imperative and active form, which are to be understood only permissively. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.] Reference
Suffer a humble unit to speak of himself as I, and, once for all, let me permissively disclaim intentional self-conceit in the needful usage of isolated I-ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
This Dad was proud that clauses delivering framework powers to Wales were now, in his view, being increasingly and deliberately more widely and permissively drafted. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Blog Network] Reference
The very existence of arbitrary power, however permissively or even benignly it may be exercised, reduces men to servitude; and free individuals can exist only in free states. From Wordnik.com. [3quarksdaily] Reference
Supreme Court construed the commerce clause so permissively that Congress has seized, by increments, a sweeping police power that enables it to do virtually anything it wants?. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
He "makes" the way of escape simultaneously with the temptation which His providence permissively arranges for His people. to bear it -- Greek, "to bear up under it," or "against it.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military says it has no evidence to support Israeli newspaper claims that soldiers permissively killed civilians and destroyed property in the recent Gaza war. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military says it has no evidence to support Israeli newspaper claims that soldiers permissively killed civilians and destroyed property in the recent Gaza war. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Although our study was not designed to address the question of causality, current evidence suggests that locus-specific DNA methylation either permissively or necessarily controls gene-specific expression. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Accordingly, consistent with that same quiet kindness of character which had smoothed away all difficulties hitherto, the indulgent mother now allowed the loving pair to meet alone, for the first time permissively, to tell each other all their happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
A master whose interest in secular affairs goes only so far as to permissively countenance them. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Restricted formats page), the permissively-licensed BSDs, and many GNU / Linux distributions. From Wordnik.com. [Adobe Blogs] Reference
He waved a limp hand permissively. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
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