Allowing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Allow \Al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Allowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Allowing}.] [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F.
     allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use;
     confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad +
     laudare to praise. See {Local}, and cf. {Allocate}, {Laud}.]
     1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or


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              Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.   --Luke xi. 48.
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              We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his
              life, approve his learning.           --Fuller.
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     2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.]
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              How allow you the model of these clothes?
                                                    --Massinger.
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     3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.]
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              Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power.
                                                    --Shak.
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     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.
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              He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     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.
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              I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that
              Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly
              reprehensible.                        --Thackeray.
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     6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp.
        to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
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     7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to
        allow a son to be absent.
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     Syn: To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit;
          suffer; tolerate. See {Permit}.
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