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動詞

allowed

1. simple past and past participle of allow

形容詞

allowed (comparative more allowed, superlative most allowed)

1. Permitted, authorized. [from 16th c.]

   Can she come? -She'll be allowed to go later.

   • 1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:

     The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.

2. (now rare) Allotted. [from 15th c.]
3. (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 […]

反意語

• banned
• forbidden
• prohibited

派生語