Licence

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1. Noun

a legal document giving official permission to do something
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2. Noun

freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
Vocabulary classified under Philosophy

3. Noun

excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near" - Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break … the rules of decorum" - Edmund Burke
Vocabulary classified under Philosophy
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