lowable

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adjective

Permissible or commendable .

OriginFrench louable →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. obsoletePermissible 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
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    […] 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

Origin

  1. Frenchlouable
  2. Englishlowable

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

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APA

lowable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lowable

MLA

“lowable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lowable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lowable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lowable.

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