allowably

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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

To the last we may allowably pour out our words with some degree of haste, but the other addresses should be deeply pondered before they are delivered.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

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

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 Richardson, Samuel