[f. ALLOW + -ER1.] One who allows.

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  † 1.  One who praises, approves, abets, countenances; a patron, or abettor. Obs.

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c. 1565.  R. Lindsay, Hist. Scotl. (1728), 45. The fortifiers and allowers of him in such wickedness.

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1580.  Baret, Alv., A 303. A proouer, an alower, a prayser, Probator.

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1606.  King’s Declar., 13 (L.). This pretended assembly, together with their associates and allowers.

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1647.  N. Ward, Simple Cobbler, 14. Not onely an Allower, but an humble Petitioner, that … Anabaptists may have due time and means of conviction.

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  2.  One who admits, or permits.

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1859.  in Worcester.

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