Definition of Allow

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Definition of Allow

Allow

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

To like; to be suited or pleased with.

To sanction; to invest; to intrust.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Allow Quotations

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt Disney

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

Allow Translations

allow in Afrikaans is laat
allow in Dutch is laten, laten begaan, laten schieten
allow in French is laisser, permettre
allow in Latin is concedo, praebeo, fateor, exhibeo exibeo, sino
allow in Portuguese is reserve
allow in Spanish is caber, permitir

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