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adjective

Allowable adj.

Praiseworthy; laudable. (Obs.)

Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

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Etymology of 'Allowable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Allowable" Quotes from Famous Books

... all allowable, that he might be permitted to come under the influence of the gale, and then asked why Polly was ...

— Philosopher Jack • R.M. Ballantyne

... going to misunderstand me, as you have?" she asked, somewhat piteously. "Is it so strange and unheard of a thing for a woman to want a home and—and friends? Isn't it allowable for a person who has money to want to pay fair wages? Why should I scrimp and haggle and screw, when I want most of all to ...

— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

... begins; possibly the opening of it has been lost out of the text in copying from a mutilated papyrus; or possibly it was sent merely as a memorandum of Sanehat's position and desires, without venturing to address it personally to the king; or even it may have not been allowable then to make such petitions formally, so as to leave the initiative to the king's free will, just as it is not allowable nowadays to question royalty, but only to ...

— Egyptian Tales, First Series • ed. by W. M. Flinders Petrie

... above a little dog, but if it were right and allowable that great people should ill-treat all who are beneath them, I might at this moment beat you, or kill you, for a fairy is greater than a man. The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all ...

— The Blue Fairy Book • Various

... profuseness in which disfigures both Dictionaries, another evil result of bookselling competition. The greater part of them, especially those in Webster, are fitter for a child's scrap-book than for a volume intended to go into a student's library. Such adjuncts seem to us allowable only, if at all, somewhat as they were introduced by Blunt in his "Glossographia," to make terms of heraldry more easily comprehensible. They might be admitted to save trouble in describing geometrical figures, or in explaining certain of the more frequently occurring terms in architecture ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various

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