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- adjective Not
allowed ,forbidden .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I just felt bad for the entires receiving very little votes, but my charity was unallowed.
This Just In: Plugs and Deliberations BikeSnobNYC 2009
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It is discouraged and almost unallowed in traditional literature, but uncontrolled and rampant here.
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“It is discouraged and almost unallowed in traditional literature, ”
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Could it be that journalists are prevented from taking pictures of things they see that are inappropriate and do not want to publish pictures showing things all rosy if they are unallowed to show pictures of other things happening as well?
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SERWER: You know, I see this problem and I see, you know, a situation where a cancer patient is unallowed -- not allowed to pull a weed growing in their backyard, roll it up and smoke and make himself feel better, but they can spend $1,000 on a drug from one of the big drug companies that ends up making them even more sick, it's ironic, it's terrible, it's wrong.
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He would needs, by his usual power, have a thing allowed him which by the laws was unallowed.
The Confessions 1999
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Anecdotes, unrevealing or unallowed to reveal, he does bead along in monotonous, almost hour by hour, succession.
Reading Scott Stephenson, R.C. 1971
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Indeed such was the value set upon it, that attempts were often made to counterfeit it, an unallowed shell being fraudulently used in the manufacture of the white, while the black was imitated from a kind of stone.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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The enormous demand at length brought upon the market beads of stone or unallowed shells, as also many rough, ill-strung specimens of the genuine article.
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward
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He would needs, by his usual power, have a thing allowed him which by the laws was unallowed.
The Sixth Book 1909
edwin46 commented on the word unallowed
I suppose this word 'unallowed' should be unallowed because it is not defined by any of the generally accepted dictionaries.
August 21, 2009