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licencia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
licencia.
Principal English Translation: 

license, legal permission
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

nimã hualecoc ỹ Justicia ynic oquitaco yn teopantli nimã oquitemacac lisẽsia ynic otzinquis = Then the judge arrived to see the church. Then he issued a license for it to be torn down.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 138–139.

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