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ALLOWABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deductible according to the tax laws
Classified under:
Similar:
deductible (acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction))
Sense 2
Meaning:
That may be permitted especially as according to rule
Example:
a permissible tax deduction
Synonyms:
allowable; permissible
Classified under:
Also:
tolerable (capable of being borne or endured)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Deserving to be allowed or considered
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
admissible (deserving to be admitted)
Derivation:
allow (allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something)
allow (consent to, give permission)
allow (afford possibility)
Context examples:
If it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because I had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally poor?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It can be allowable only as the thought of the moment.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The attachment, from which against honour, against feeling, against every better interest he had outwardly torn himself, now, when no longer allowable, governed every thought; and the connection, for the sake of which he had, with little scruple, left her sister to misery, was likely to prove a source of unhappiness to himself of a far more incurable nature.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The right of a lively mind, Fanny, seizing whatever may contribute to its own amusement or that of others; perfectly allowable, when untinctured by ill-humour or roughness; and there is not a shadow of either in the countenance or manner of Miss Crawford: nothing sharp, or loud, or coarse.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Had it been allowable entertainment, had there been no pain to her friend, or reproach to herself, in the waverings of Harriet's mind, Emma would have been amused by its variations.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
To her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the how she should be dressed was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Acquit me here, and procure for me, when it is allowable, the acquittal and good wishes of that said Emma Woodhouse, whom I regard with so much brotherly affection, as to long to have her as deeply and as happily in love as myself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
