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Admission   /ædmˈɪʃən/  /ədmˈɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Admission  n.  
1.
The act or practice of admitting.
2.
Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. "What numbers groan for sad admission there!"
3.
The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession. "The too easy admission of doctrines."
4.
(Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
5.
A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
6.
(Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
Synonyms: Admittance; concession; acknowledgment; concurrence; allowance. See Admittance.






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"Admission" Quotes from Famous Books



... blundered without in the least understanding how or why. "All right. What'll we talk about?" In itself a fatal admission. ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber

... ideas certainly gained admission, but they did not make way at that time. When Richard Hooker expresses the popular ideas as to the primitive free development of society, this is done principally in order to point out the extensive ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... her own room. She wanted to be alone to battle with the unexpected enemy which had in some unaccountable way stormed the stronghold of her heart and threatened to lay it in ruins. The words Marion had spoken—words which had been utterly unheeded at the time—now battered for admission to the fortress and met with slight resistance. "His love is not for you—every bit of the love in his heart belongs to another woman." It was not true! It could not be true! Francis loved her—now—to-day. What right had the woman who had failed him to rob her, the living Philippa, of ...
— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay

... Hinge. That will do." Hinge went away, and I sat down to think this new matter over. Of course I had never been foolish enough to suppose that Brunow had given me any information of value against his party, outside the one admission that he had been hired by the Baroness Bonnar; but here was sudden proof of the incompleteness of his confession. Shall I confess that my first impulse was to do an extremely silly and inconsiderate thing? I ...
— In Direst Peril • David Christie Murray

... it? Tell him the whole truth, and send him a ticket of admission to the Institution for Idiots and Feeble-minded Youth? One doesn't like to be cruel,—and yet one hates to lie. Therefore one softens down the ugly central fact of donkeyism, —recommends study of good models,—that writing verse should be an incidental occupation only, not interfering ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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