Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-MIT'TANCE, n.

1. The act of admitting; allowance. More usually,
2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; and hence, actual entrance; as, he gained admittance into the church.
3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Not used.]
4. Shakspeare uses the word for the custom or prerogative of being admitted; "Sir John, you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, of great admittance:" but the license is unwarrantable.