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Definition of Allowancing
1. allowance [v] - See also: allowance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allowancing
Literary usage of Allowancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Daily Journal of Major George Washington, in 1751-2: Kept While on a by George Washington, Joseph Meredith Toner (1892)
"... put the Capt on allowancing the Hands whi at 8 AM was accordingly done at 10
ye Wind sprang up S° W we made Sail and stood WNW — but before Midnight the ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"... to yellow Aberdeen turnips, which we got fresh and clean direct from the fields.
There was no allowancing; wo all had as many as we could consume. ..."
3. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1910)
"To prevent waste or embezzlement is the only inducement to allowancing of them
at all — for if, ..."
4. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853-1854: With Remarks by Frederick Law Olmsted, William Peterfield Trent (1904)
""This mode of allowancing relieves their owner from much trouble, in daily
supervising their provisions, and is much more satisfactory to the slave. ..."
5. Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"The plan of allowancing poor families at so much per head would have quickened
immensely the progress towards national bankruptcy which was carried so far ..."
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