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Allow   /əlˈaʊ/   Listen
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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



... entering noiselessly, sat silent in a far corner. There was no artificial right; the patient had to be kept in darkness. There was, however, a bright moonlight; sufficient light stole in through the edges of the blinds to allow him, when his eyes grew accustomed, to see ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... an intensely bitter principle. The Filipinos make cups and vases of the wood and allow water to stand in them 6-12 hours, thus preparing a solution of the bitter principle of the plant which they use in ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... been treated and medicamented as the doctor ordained:—it is a fact, that, when he rallied up from his bodily ailment, his mental malady had likewise quitted him, and he was no more in love with Fanny Bolton than you or I, who are much too wise, or too moral, to allow our hearts to go ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... the other services, the committee secured from the Navy a pledge to give petty officer status to chief stewards and stewards of the first, second, and third class, and its influence was discernible in the Navy's decision to allow stewards to transfer to the general service. The committee also made, and the Navy accepted, several practical suggestions that might lead to an increase in the number (p. 376) of black officers and enlisted men. The committee approved the Air ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
... controversies with the Jews, and that Origen or Photius would have mentioned it. But Eusebius, the ecclesiastical historian (i., II), is the first who quotes it, and our reliance on the judgment or even the honesty of this writer is not so great as to allow of our considering everything found in his works as undoubtedly genuine" ("Christian Records," by Rev. Dr. Giles, p. 30. ...
— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant


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