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/əlˈaʊəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Allowable adj.

Praiseworthy; laudable. (Obs.)

Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

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Etymology of 'Allowable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to affirm that it is not allowable in serious Plays. For Comedies, I find you are ...

— An English Garner - Critical Essays & Literary Fragments • Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe

... this very day this sinew is extracted from the hind quarters of all animals before it is allowable for a Jew to eat them. This operation, in popular parlance, is ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... for which a supply of notched bullets was provided (for game shooting purposes only these terribly destructive missiles are allowable), and with Sergt. Bela Moshi and half a dozen Haussas as attendants the five men left Kilwa camp at ...

— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman

... as well be going. "It's allowable to use your own mother's plot," I assured her, "don't bother about that. ...

— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... families. I like the scene itself, the Miss Lesleys, Lady Anne, and the music very much. . . . Sir Thomas H. you always do very well. I have only taken the liberty of expunging one phrase of his which would not be allowable—'Bless my heart!' It is too familiar and inelegant. Your grandmother is more disturbed at Mrs. Forester's not returning the Egertons' visit sooner than by anything else. They ought to have called at the Parsonage before Sunday. You describe a sweet place, but your descriptions are ...

— Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters - A Family Record • William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

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