allowable
adjective
that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible.
allowably
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a word derived from
allowable.
Example Sentences
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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 Goold Brown
That those who censure would not have imitated his conduct, in defiance of the admonitions of the hundred-throated Sikh ordnance, we may allowably imagine.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
This needs a short explanation, as the reader may allowably ask how a man without any conception of art could be even a moderately successful artist.
From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Your sister, who would not in your circumstances have been guilty of your perverseness, may allowably be angry at you for it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
But surely there may allowably exist in the minds of different men different means of arriving at the same security.
From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by James Gillman
