Definition of Admission

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Admission

The act or practice of admitting.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.

The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.

Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.

Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.

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Admission Quotations

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
Russell Baker

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Admission Translations

admission in French is admission
admission in Italian is ingresso

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