Allow

Definition of Allow

Al`low´

v. t.

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

[imp. & p. p. Allowed ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing.]

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.

- Luke xi. 48.

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.

- Fuller.

To like; to be suited or pleased with.

How allow you the model of these clothes?

- Massinger.

To sanction; to invest; to intrust.

Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.

- Shak.

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.

- Macaulay.

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.

- Thackeray.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

v. i.

To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Allowing still for the different ways of making it.

- Addison.

To allow of
to permit; to admit. - Shak.

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