Difference between Permit and Permission

What is the difference between Permit and Permission?

Permit as a noun is formal permission. while Permission as a noun is authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

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.

We hope you now know whether to use Permit or Permission in your sentence.

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