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LICITNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does licitness mean?
• LICITNESS (noun)
The noun LICITNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of strictly conforming to law
Familiarity information: LICITNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of strictly conforming to law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("licitness" is a kind of...):
lawfulness (the quality of conforming to law)
Antonym:
illicitness (the quality of not conforming strictly to law)
Derivation:
licit (authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law)
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