licit
Speech parts
1. licit - Adjective
2. licit - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Lawful.
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Examples
a legitimate government
a wife's licit love
Luciani added, "Getting down, however, to the act in itself, and good faith aside, the moral problem which is posed is: is extrauterine fertilization in vitro or in a test tube, licit?..
But, there are divergent views on whether it is licit to do so.
Increasing the age at which licit drugs of abuse such as alcohol can be purchased, the banning or restricting advertising of alcohol has been recommended as additional ways of reducing the harm of alcohol dependence and abuse.
Related and similar examples The pioneering French syntactician Lucien Tesnière came up with the French language sentence "Le silence vertébral indispose la voile licite" ("The vertebral silence indisposes the licit sail").