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Walloweth vs Alloweth - What's the difference?

walloweth | alloweth |

As verbs the difference between walloweth and alloweth

is that walloweth is (wallow) while alloweth is (allow).

walloweth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wallow)

    • wallow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * waller (eye dialect)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
    • Pigs wallow in the mud.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I may wallow in the lily beds.
  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
    • She wallowed in her misery.
  • * The Simpsons (TV series)
    • With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  • To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
  • To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • * South
    • God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
  • (intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
    • Usage notes
    In the sense of “to immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with”, it is almost exclusively used for self-indulgent negative emotions, particularly self-pity. See synonyms for general or positive alternatives, such as (revel).
    Synonyms
    * (to immerse oneself in) bask, delight, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of wallowing.
  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  • A kind of rolling walk.

    • Etymology 2

    (From inflected forms of) (etyl) . Compare (waugh).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tasteless, flat.

    • alloweth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (allow)

    • allow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
  • * 2004 , Constance Garnett (translator), Anton Chekhov (Russian author), “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories :
    • he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.
  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  • * 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes)
    • I allow , with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conductwas highly reprehensible.
  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • To not bar or obstruct.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
  • To acknowledge or concede.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam (2011), page 154:
    • Half the night passed before the wench allowed that it might be safe to stop.
  • To take into account by making an allowance.
    • When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
  • To render physically possible.
  • * 1824 , (Washington Irving), :
    • The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
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  • (obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  • * Bible, Luke xi. 48
    • Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
  • * Fuller
    • We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
  • (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou shalt be allowed with absolute power.
  • (obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
  • * Massinger
    • How allow you the model of these clothes?

    Synonyms

    * allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerate

    Derived terms

    * allowance * allowable

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