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Desperate attempts have been made to prove the innocence of fun, and the allowableness of wit and humor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various

Indeed, there is here a sort of middle zone betwixt error and allowableness, wherein no decisive precepts may be laid down.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

We may take these two petitions as tests of the allowableness of any occupation, or of any relaxation.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

And, in like manner, Christians were not likely to entertain the question of the abstract allowableness of images in the Catholic ritual, with the actual superstitions and immoralities of paganism before their eyes.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

And must the degree of veracity no longer be the standard of the allowableness and moral power of a lesson?

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul