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S: (n) license (license%1:10:00::), licence (licence%1:10:00::), permit (permit%1:10:02::) (a legal document giving official permission to do something)
S: (n) license (license%1:26:01::), licence (licence%1:26:01::) (freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech))
S: (n) license (license%1:26:02::), licence (licence%1:26:02::) (excessive freedom; lack of due restraint) "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
S: (n) license (license%1:04:00::), permission (permission%1:04:00::), permit (permit%1:04:00::) (the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization)

S: (n) clearance (clearance%1:04:00::) (permission to proceed) "the plane was given clearance to land"
S: (n) conge (conge%1:04:00::), congee (congee%1:04:00::) (formal permission to depart) "he gave me his conge"
S: (n) allowance (allowance%1:04:00::) (the act of allowing) "He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"

S: (n) lenience (lenience%1:04:00::), leniency (leniency%1:04:00::) (lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers)

S: (n) clemency (clemency%1:04:01::), mercifulness (mercifulness%1:04:00::), mercy (mercy%1:04:00::) (leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice) "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"

S: (n) commutation (commutation%1:04:01::), re-sentencing (re-sentencing%1:04:00::) ((law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law)
S: (n) amnesty (amnesty%1:04:00::), pardon (pardon%1:04:01::), free pardon (free_pardon%1:04:00::) (the formal act of liberating someone)
S: (n) quarter (quarter%1:04:00::) (clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent) "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
S: (n) reprieve (reprieve%1:04:00::), respite (respite%1:04:01::) (the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment)

S: (n) dispensation (dispensation%1:04:01::) (an exemption from some rule or obligation)

S: (n) variance (variance%1:04:01::) (an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)) "a zoning variance"

S: (n) toleration (toleration%1:04:00::) (official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion))