Allowance vs Endure - What's the difference?
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The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
* Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --
Acknowledgment.
* The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --
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.
* I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
* After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .
(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
A child's allowance; pocket money.
(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
(obsolete) approval; approbation
(obsolete) license; indulgence
To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
To last.
* Bible, Job viii. 15
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14
To suffer patiently.
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(obsolete) To indurate.
As verbs the difference between allowance and endure
is that allowance is to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity while endure is .As a noun allowance
is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.allowance
English
(wikipedia allowance)Alternative forms
* allowaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
- (Crabbe)
- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (money) * (minting) (l), (l)Verb
(allowanc)- The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
- Our provisions were allowanced .
endure
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Alternative forms
* enduer (obsolete) * indure (obsolete)Verb
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- Our love will endure forever.
- He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .
- Can thine heart endure , or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?
- He endured years of pain.
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