pardonably
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
pardonable + -ly
Adverb[edit]
pardonably (comparative more pardonably, superlative most pardonably)
- In a pardonable manner.
- 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
- Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!