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It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
Samuel Johnson

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IFReviews Dictionary

Allowance
- Approval; approbation.
- The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
- Acknowledgment.
- License; indulgence.
- That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
- To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.


Hampa 1930

    Author
    J. Izquierdo and L. Calvo

    Idiom
    Spanish

    Authoring System
    Spectrum

    Release Year
    1990