allowable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˈlaʊ.əbəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]allowable (comparative more allowable, superlative most allowable)
- Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable.
- Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
- Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
- Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]
- (obsolete) Praiseworthy.
Synonyms
[edit]- (permissible): leveful
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]allowable (plural allowables)
- A permitted amount or activity.
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