allow vs outlaw

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). 

outlaw

verb
  • To deprive of legal force. 

  • To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement. 

  • To declare illegal. 

  • To place a ban upon. 

noun
  • A fugitive from the law. 

  • An in-law: a relative by marriage. 

  • A person who operates outside established norms. 

  • One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial. 

  • A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty. 

  • A wild horse. 

  • A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp. 

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