allow vs govern

allow

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

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

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

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

  • 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. 

govern

verb
  • To exercise political authority; to run a government. 

  • To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate. 

  • To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. 

  • To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. 

  • To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. 

  • To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate. 

  • To have or exercise a determining influence. 

noun
  • The act of governing 

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