the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Allow
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) 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.
(2):
(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
(3):
(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
(4):
(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
(5):
(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
(6):
(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
(7):
(v. t.) 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.
(8):
(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Allow'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/allow.html. 1828.
