Allow

imp. & p. p. Allowed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

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

   Allowing still for the different ways of making it.