allowably

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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

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 Richardson, Samuel

It may be allowably said, there is a tone of breeding throughout these ballads, such as is never found in the productions of rustic genius.

From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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

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 Thomas, Bertha