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permitted

/pɚˈmɪtɪd/ adjective B1
  1. Allowed, authorized.
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Morrel; but do you think we shall be permitted to see our poor Edmond?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 38 · C1
These people had nothing to do but talk to each other, but they always came to wait outside the Throne Room every morning, although they were never permitted to see Oz.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 67 · B2
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 2 · B2
No doubt, however, you had drawn your own conclusions, Gregson, before you permitted this.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 27 · B2

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