allowably
Example Sentences
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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 Bertha Thomas
Surely, you are not afraid to trust yourself with a secret of this nature: if you are, then you may the more allowably doubt me.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 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
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
In the following example, does he is used for is,—the auxiliary is,—and perhaps allowably: "It is certain from scripture, that the same person does in the course of life many times offend and be forgiven."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
