Definition of Admit

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Definition of Admit

Admit

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

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Admit Quotations

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
Bill Cosby

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Erma Bombeck

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell

Admit Translations

admit in Afrikaans is bieg
admit in Danish is bekende
admit in Dutch is toegeven
admit in French is avouer, confesser, admettez, admettons, admettent
admit in German is zulassen, einlassen, zulassen
admit in Latin is fateor, confiteor confessus
admit in Portuguese is admita
admit in Spanish is caber, admitir

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