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" (50 found)
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13 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- законен adj (legal term)
- позволен adj (not forbidden)
Czech
3 entries- dovolený adj (not forbidden)
- legální adj (not forbidden)
- zákonný adj (legal term)
Finnish
4 entries- laillinen adj (legal term)
- lainmukainen adj (legal term)
- luvallinen adj (not forbidden)
- sallittu adj (not forbidden)
French
1 entries- licite adj (legal term)
Spanish
2 entries- lícito adj (not forbidden)
- lícito adj (legal term)
Swahili
1 entries- halali adj (not forbidden)
Sample sentences
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
[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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