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noun

Admittance n.

1.

The act of admitting.

2.

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. "To gain admittance into the house." "He desires admittance to the king." "To give admittance to a thought of fear."

3.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. (Obs.)

4.

Admissibility. (Obs.)

5.

(Eng. Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.

Synonyms: Admission; access; entrance; initiation. Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. "No admittance." Its secondary or moral sense, as "admittance to the church," is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn.

Admittance n. (Elec.) The reciprocal of impedance.

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"Admittance" Quotes from Famous Books

... With fiue times so much conuersation, I should get ground of your faire Mistris; make her go backe, euen to the yeilding, had I admittance, and opportunitie ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... evening of April first a smallish unobtrusive-looking citizen procured admittance to Mrs. Hadley-Smith's home, on East Sixty-third Street just off Fifth Avenue. With the air of a man having business on the premises he walked through the front door along with a group of helpers from the caterer's. Once inside, he sent a name by the butler to Mrs. Hadley-Smith, ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... a man. To Malling, as he presently turned to the right, Hornton Street looked like an alley leading straight to the pit of despair, and when he tapped on the blistered green door of the small house where the curate lived, it was as if he tapped seeking admittance to all the sorrowful things that had been brought into being to beset his life ...

— The Dweller on the Threshold • Robert Smythe Hichens

... of Reuben's arrest, the schoolmaster went over to see him; and as he was the bearer of a letter from Mr. Ellison to the governor of the jail, he was able to obtain admittance. ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

... meantime I had to encounter many refusals and all sorts of difficulties before my admittance to the Borda. And later I lived through many troublous years; years replete with struggles and mistakes,—I had many a Calvary to climb; I had to pay cruelly and in full for having been reared a ...

— The Story of a Child • Pierre Loti

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