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Etymology
Etymology tree English pardonable Middle English -ly English -ly English pardonably From pardonable + -ly.
Meanings
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In a pardonable manner.
Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!
1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most pardonably | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more pardonably | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |