ADMIT, ADMITTANCE
ADJECTIVES
► ADMISSIVE tending to admit → 1778
NOUNS
► ADMITTIE ► ADMITTY admittance → 1616 obs.
VERBS
► ACCUSE to admit, to allow; to suppose → 1901 Ireland
► AKNOW to admit or show one’s knowledge, to acknowledge, to confess → 1000 obs.
► AVOW to admit, to acknowledge, to confess → 1220
► GIVE DOWN to admit; to confess → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► IMMISS to admit, to let in → 1647 obs.
► IMMIT to admit, to let in; the opposite of ’emit’ → 1578 obs.
► INTERMIT to admit, to allow to enter → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OWN THE CORN to admit an error → E19 orig. US
► UNDERGO to admit, to accept, to allow → 1315 obs.
► YIELD to admit; to confess → 1835 Sc.
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