allowably

Example Sentences

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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

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 Brown, Goold

But may one allowably demonstrate the fallacy of this same point of view?

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch

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