admittedness

English

Etymology

From admitted +‎ -ness.

Noun

admittedness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being admitted.
    • 1890 June 28, “Parramatta Police Court”, in The Cumberland Mercury and Parramatta Gazette, volume XXV, number 1732, Parramatta, N.S.W.: Fuller’s Lightning Ptg. Works Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 6:
      The state of defendant’s admittedness was when complainant left him in January was £11 17s. 6d. Defendant admitted then that he owed that amount and evn more.
    • 1941 July, Gordon Lowe, “A possibility of contractual security”, in The Industrial Heating Engineer: Air Conditioning and Ventilation, volume III, number 11, London: John D. Troup, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72, column 2:
      Settlement by the insurer has to be effected within 30 days from the date of the admittedness certificate, but as this class of insurance is, in common with all others, of the net loss variety, the underwriter is entitled to deduct from the gross amount of loss his share in all recoveries and distributions from the estate, his share of the salvage proceeds on disposal, and his proportion of any other compensating salvages which may accrue.
    • 1995, William Lovitt, Harriet Brundage Lovitt, “Man”, in Modern Technology in the Heideggerian Perspective (Problems in Contemporary Philosophy; 17), volume I, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 107:
      This freedom, happening as restrained engagement with what-is, as “admittedness (Eingelassenheit) into the revealing, the harboring-forth, of what-is as a particular something,” carries into consummation the intricate self-differentiating Happening named as the Being of what-is.
    • [2005], Records and Briefs of the California First District (Civil No. A031915), San Francisco, Calif.: [The Court], →OCLC, page 15, lines 20–23:
      In the instant case, there were oral communications, lien release letters covering specified periods of time, plus a request for a third joint check, followed by a subsequent admittedness of further indebtedness by OWNERS.
    • 2011 February 8, Anthony Haas, Dawn Peyote, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 216:
      Loving the rosaries of frank admittedness, throes of sinking ships and snakes speaking English.
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