allow vs avow

allow

verb
  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

avow

verb
  • To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. 

  • To bind or devote by a vow. 

  • To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. 

How often have the words allow and avow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )