Licitness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being licit; lawfulness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The property of being licit, legalness, appropriateness.
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  • noun. the quality of strictly conforming to law
  • Word Usage
    "The NLM is therefore very happy to present to you an English translation of a recent and very important statement which Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller of Regensburg put out on behalf of the whole German Bishops 'Conference defending both Catholic orthodoxy regarding Jewish salvation and the licitness of the extraordinary form Good Friday prayer for Jewish conversion."
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