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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
allow .
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Examples
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Actions of Men, though not their Contemplations, have regularly allow'd them to follow (BW, 8: 281; Boyle 1772, 4: 182-3).
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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Praying, Madam, that I soon should be allow'd to say 'Boo' on Your behalf
"You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...." Ann Althouse 2008
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The sight of Me clanking a few Chains ought to displace the vain, silly Notions that too much Idleness has allow'd the creep into the Brains of these deluded Lunaticks.
"You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...." Ann Althouse 2008
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Elizabeth Carney complained of having a Child by Manus Butler & prayed assistance to compel ye sd Butler to maintain the Child — Butler present — admitted the complaint, & allow'd the Charges, viz. £ s d
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Probability arises from an opposition of contrary chances or causes, by which the mind is not allow'd to fix on either side, but is incessantly tost from one to another, and at one moment is determin'd to consider an object as existent, and at another moment as the contrary.
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This Play has been alter'd by Sir _William D'Avenant_ and Mr. _Dryden_; and tho 'I won't Arraign the Judgment of those two great Men, yet I think I may be allow'd to say, that there are some things left out by them, that might, and even ought to have been kept in.
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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_Falstaff_ is allow'd by every body to be a Master-piece; the Character is always well-sustain'd, tho 'drawn out into the length of three Plays; and even the Account of his Death, given by his Old Landlady Mrs. _Quickly_, in the first Act of _Henry_ V. tho' it be extremely Natural, is yet as diverting as any Part of his Life.
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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_ Among the particular Beauties of this Piece, I think one may be allow'd to point out the Tale of _Prospero_ in the First Act; his
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd;
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Character there was hardly any Play writ in that Time, are all very entertaining: And, I believe, _Thersites_ in _Troilus_ and _Cressida_, and _Apemantus_ in _Timon_, will be allow'd to be Master-Pieces of ill
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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