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License

License

A license — official permission, including to marry — often touches disputes, loss, and the chafing of bonds entered into. The dream may ask where formal sanction is bringing more constraint than freedom, whether an arrangement you're licensing will humble or serve you, and what unpleasant tie the stamp of permission might bind you into.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for license, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss. Married women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman to see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter unpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her

pride.