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Allow   /əlˈaʊ/   Listen
verb
Allow  v. t.  (past & past part. allowed; pres. part. allowing)  
1.
To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. (Obs. or Archaic) "Ye allow the deeds of your fathers." "We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning."
2.
To like; to be suited or pleased with. (Obs.) "How allow you the model of these clothes?"
3.
To sanction; to invest; to intrust. (Obs.) "Thou shalt be... allowed with absolute power."
4.
To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. "He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year."
5.
To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. "I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct... was highly reprehensible."
6.
To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
7.
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
Synonyms: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit.


Allow  v. i.  To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. "Allowing still for the different ways of making it."
To allow of, to permit; to admit.





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"Allow" Quotes from Famous Books



... you?" inquired a loud rough voice behind him. "I don't allow passengers to handle ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... another. "Where," said he, "Doth Cianfa lurk?" I, for a sign my guide Should stand attentive, plac'd against my lips The finger lifted. If, O reader! now Thou be not apt to credit what I tell, No marvel; for myself do scarce allow The witness of mine eyes. But as I looked Toward them, lo! a serpent with six feet Springs forth on one, and fastens full upon him: His midmost grasp'd the belly, a forefoot Seiz'd on each arm (while deep in either cheek He flesh'd ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... a most excellent plan," decided Mr. Sparling. "We will work it whenever we get in after daylight. It might not be a bad idea to try it tomorrow morning. I'll allow the musicians overtime for it, so there should be no objection on their part. We will make a triumphal entry into Des Moines, providing nothing happens to us ...
— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... which, he said that even corporeal matter was formed, in order that individuals might be naturally established in their proper genera and species: and that our intellect was formed by such participation in order to have knowledge of the genera and species of things. But since Aristotle did not allow that forms of natural things exist apart from matter, and as forms existing in matter are not actually intelligible; it follows that the natures or forms of the sensible things which we understand are not actually intelligible. Now nothing is ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... "Allow me, Sir Patrick! Heaven knows how unwilling I am to speak of it. Heaven knows that not a word of reference to it escaped my lips. But you leave me no choice now. As mistress of the household, as a Christian woman, ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins


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