puhekieltä To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
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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.
puhekieltä To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
1855, (w), (w)
I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct(..)was highly reprehensible.
puhekieltä To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V)
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(..)