allowed
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈlaʊd/
- Simple past tense and past participle of allow
allowed
- (now, rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.]
- (now, rare) Acknowledged; admitted to be true. [from 15th c.]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 68:
- With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimously allowed that sex is out of the question […].
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 68:
- Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.]
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