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English
Etymology
From colour + -ably.
Adverb
colourably (comparative more colourably, superlative most colourably)
- Alternative form of colorably
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:Afterwards it was thought so Sacramentall, that no adultery or desertion could dissolve it; and this is the sense of our Canon Courts in England to this day, but in no other reformed Church els: yet there remains in them also a burden on it as heavie as the other two were disgracefull or superstitious, and of as much iniquity, crossing a Law not onely writt’n by Moses, but character’d in us by nature, of more antiquity and deeper ground then marriage it selfe; which Law is to force nothing against the faultles proprieties of nature: yet that this may be colourably done, our Saviours words touching divorce, are as it were congeal’d into a stony rigor, inconsistent both with his doctrine and his office; and that which he preacht onely to the conscience, is by Canonicall tyranny snatcht into the compulsive censure of a judiciall Court; where Laws are impos’d even against the venerable and secret power of natures impression, to love what ever cause be found to loath.