allow vs revoke

allow

verb
  • 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. 

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

revoke

verb
  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. 

noun
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards. 

  • A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. 

  • A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. 

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