allowment noun3 •The act of allowing.And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church. — 1570 •An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training." — 1887 •A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis. — 1995 formsallowments
