allowably

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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 Thomas, Bertha

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

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

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

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 Gillman, James