license-n
type: LexicalEntry
canonical form: license
sense: 14018863-n
part of speech: noun

licence-n
type: LexicalEntry
canonical form: licence
sense: 14018863-n
part of speech: noun

14018863-n
type: LexicalConcept
in scheme: en-word.net
definition: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
example: when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near
  source: Will Durant
example: the intolerable license with which the newspapers break … the rules of decorum
  source: Edmund Burke
ili: i110481
lexfile: noun.state
part of speech: noun
hypernym: 14017941-n