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lowable

lowable adjective: permissible or commendable .

Adjective

lowable

  1. (obsolete) Permissible or commendable .
    • Further to advertise your grace, that I have declared to the prior that his third article is not lowable; […]1538, July 22 John Butlare, letter, quoted in 1846, Thomas Cranmer, The Works of Thomas Cranmer, page 373
    • […] concerning onely honest and healthsome decoration and cleanlinesse, alwayes most lowable and commendable in a woman : […]1654(?), Thomas Raynalde, The Birth of Mankind … Fourth Edition, Corrected, Etc, page 5

Origin of lowable

Perhaps from low, 'low (“allow”) + -able and/or French louable.

Questions about lowable

What does lowable mean?
Lowable means permissible or commendable .
What part of speech is lowable?
Lowable is an adjective.

Words near lowable in the dictionary

  1. low-wine
  2. low-wines
  3. low-wing
  4. low-wire
  5. low-wires
  6. lowable
  7. lowage
  8. lowages
  9. lowan
  10. Lowana
  11. Lowanna

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