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English
Etymology
From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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 Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath 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.
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Noun
allowable (plural allowables)
- A permitted amount or activity.