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Definition of Admits
1. admit [v] - See also: admit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Admits
Literary usage of Admits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by Sir John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood (1883)
"(y) By acceptance, the drawee admits the signature and capacity of the drawer,
... (z)1 He moreover admits, and so does the maker of a promissory note, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The answer also admits that in republish- ing volumes 32 to 38 the ... It admits
that (he defendants have under consideration the repub- lication of volumes ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"In section 15 of the answer the defendant admits that he has the money in
hand, "left with him for the feme plaintiff upon her execution of her interest in ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Whore the libel alleges a total loss, and the answer admits It, the steamer Is
liable ... The answer admits "that the said schooner was cut half in twain, ..."
5. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1911)
"... he will never, as I maintain, learn anything, for nothing of the kind admits
of science,— his soul is looking downwards, not upwards, though he pursues ..."
6. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green (1874)
"But though he does not scruple to substitute for colour Still he situations and
quantities of coloured points, these do not with admits.that him constitute ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"While the report is very instructive on many individual features, it admits of
few general conclusions other than that we need much more extended ..."
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