allowably

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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 Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

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

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

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

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