No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit.
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Licit
/ˈlɪs.ɪt/
Synonyms for "licit" (54 found)
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Adjective(3 words)
Noun(2 words)
lawfully permittedlegal act
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Noun(3 words)
legal documentmore lawfulmost lawful
Adjective(7 words)
Adverb(1 words)
more swedish lag
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5 total sentences available.
Undated, Pope Honorius III Solet Annuere (anonymous translator), Let it not be in any way licit to anyone among men to infringe this page of our confirmation, or to contravene it with rash daring.
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You seem to have been very much offended because your father talks a little sculduddery after dinner, which it is perfectly licit for him to do, and which (although I am not very fond of it myself) appears to be entirely an affair of taste.
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[T]he vanity of efforts to deter humanity from following this licit and highly profitable mobility, clearly indicate the limits of their [leaders'] power.
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