Both Uses of
allot
in
A Room of One's Own
- Merely to read the titles suggested innumerable schoolmasters, innumerable clergymen mounting their platforms and pulpits and holding forth with loquacity which far exceeded the hour usually alloted to such discourse on this one subject.†
Chpt 2unconventional spelling: This is typically spelled alotted.
- Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer!†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
to give out -- especially a share of something