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authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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permission
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French permission, from Latin permissio. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English l?af (“permission”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?rm?'sh?n, IPA(key): /p??m???n/
- (General American) enPR: p?rm?'sh?n, IPA(key): /p??m???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: per?mis?sion
Noun
permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)
- authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
- Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
- The act of permitting.
- (computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
- I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
Antonyms
- prohibition
Derived terms
Related terms
- permit
Translations
Verb
permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)
- (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
See also
- clearance
Further reading
- File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- impression
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin permissi?, permissi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.mi.sj??/
Noun
permission f (plural permissions)
- permission
Related terms
- permettre
Further reading
- “permission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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