allowably
- a word derived from allowable.
Example Sentences
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Miss Crawford was most allowably a sweet, pretty girl, while the Miss Bertrams were the finest young women in the country.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
There was another and a bright side, which might just as allowably be represented in art as the dreary one, and which she had seen and studied.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
But we may allowably let the Scripture usage of the symbol of dew influence our reading into the symbol a deeper meaning than it bore to him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
So many of this sort of words as are allowably contracted, belong to the class of redundant verbs, among which they may be seen in a subsequent table.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
But may one allowably demonstrate the fallacy of this same point of view?
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch
