Definition of Allowing

1. Verb. (present participle of allow) ¹

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Definition of Allowing

1. allow [v] - See also: allow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allowing

allowableness
allowables
allowably
allowance account
allowanced
allowances
allowancing
allowaunce
allowed
allowedly
allower
allowers
alloweth
allowin'
allowing (current term)
allowing of(p)
allows
alloxan
alloxan diabetes
alloxanate
alloxanates
alloxanic
alloxanic acid
alloxanised
alloxanized
alloxans
alloxantin
alloxazine
alloxuraemia

Literary usage of Allowing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"was subject, by allowing suits against officers and others for seizing the property of strangers ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"Science here suffers severely as compared with medicine or law, each of which professions receives some 5000 recruits annually, allowing ample material for ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"... having a knowledge of ;, allowing his thin hair to grow sides of his head. In manner he us, and in disposition affectionate, compassionate. ..."

4. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"CHAPTER XI MUSIC AND COSTUMES VERSUS THE ACTOR The Work of Each Specialist Should Be Blended into a Coherent Whole—The Function of Costumes—allowing for the ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Frederick James Hall, Philip Twells, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1850)
"The error in the Act seemed to consist in this: that it had taken away the jurisdiction of the Court without giving it to the Master, allowing the Master no ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... of a determined faultfinder, who studiously avoids allowing to the book one particle of merit except the beauty of the volume. ..."

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