Permit
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To hand over, resign (something to someone). To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to. To allow for, to make something possible. To allow, to admit (of).
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Formal permission. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.
Example sentence: I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
Permission
Part of speech: noun
Definition: authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)The act of permittingflags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
Example sentence: We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.