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English
Etymology
From answerable + -ly.
Adverb
answerably (comparative more answerably, superlative most answerably)
- In suitable proportion; proportionately.
- In a corresponding manner; correspondingly.
1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:Many of the ships, as they could see by the clear moonshine, had weighed anchor, and, profiting by the calm sky, proceeded for more distant parts; answerably to this, the rude alehouses along the beach (although in defiance of the curfew law, they still shone with fire and candle) were no longer thronged with customers, and no longer echoed to the chorus of sea-songs.