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Definition of Allowable
Allowable

Praiseworthy; laudable.

Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

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Allowable Quotations

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel De Cervantes

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
William Scranton

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
Asa Gray

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
William Scranton

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