allowably
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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
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 Alexander Maclaren
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
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
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