allowed
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English
Pronunciation
Verb
allowed
- simple past and past participle of allow
Adjective
allowed (comparative more allowed, superlative most allowed)
- Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.]
- (now rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.]
- (now rare) Acknowledged; admitted to be true. [from 15th c.]
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
- With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimously allowed that sex is out of the question […]
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permitted, authorized
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