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lowable en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Permissible or commendable .
    • […] 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
    • These were enacted for reviving, the ancient fundamental Qualifications of the Monarchs, and the Rights of this Kingdom, whereby the professing and maintaining of the true reformed Religion, and the lowable Lawes concerning it, […] 1714, John Gillan, Some Remarks Upon Sir James Dalrymple's Historical Collections, page 18:
    • 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