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Allowable

//əˈlaʊ.əbəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Appropriate; acceptable.
  2. 2
    Intellectually admissible; valid; probable.
  3. 3
    Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something.
  4. 4
    Permissible; tolerable; legitimate.

    "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 […]"

  5. 5
    Praiseworthy. obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    deductible according to the tax laws wordnet
  2. 2
    that may be permitted especially as according to rule wordnet
  3. 3
    deserving to be allowed or considered wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A permitted amount or activity.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.

Etymology 2

From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.

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