Definition of "allowance"

you sent a large commission to Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, without the King's will or the state's allowance

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]

The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]

Some persons averred that Sir Pitt Crawley gave his brother a handsome allowance.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848

After making the largest allowance for fraud.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

[…] gave allowance where he needed none

1807, George Crabbe, The Parish Register

this Allowance for their Transgressions

1695, John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity