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单词 allowingly
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allowinglyadv.

Brit. /əˈlaʊɪŋli/, U.S. /əˈlaʊɪŋli/
Forms: late Middle English allowingli, 1700s– allowingly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: allow v., -ing suffix2, -ly suffix2, allowing adj.
Etymology: In sense 1 < allow v. + -ing suffix2 + -ly suffix2. In sense 2 < allowing adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. In a way that is approved. Obsolete.
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c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 451 It wolde seme þat a man myȝte leefully and meritoringli, plesingly and allowingli to þee..haue hiȝer feiþis þan ben..reuelate bi scripture.
2. So as to permit or allow something; spec. generously, obligingly. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [adverb] > obligingly or complaisantly
officiously1604
obligingly1646
complaisantly1709
allowingly1781
accommodatingly1847
1781 J. Atkins Diary 18 Sept. (1975) 58 I resolv'd to take a puke, allowingly I took 4 grs. of tar-emet then 5 more..but all this never made me sick.
1883 D. C. Murray By Gate of Sea II. xii. 170 Tregarthen laughed allowingly, as a man might laugh at a childish puzzle offered by a child.
1916 Harper's Mag. Aug. 469/2 Only such a Frenchman as we imagine could accurately yet allowingly represent us to the future in the extraordinary spectacle we present of an immense nation bewildered by the world's events.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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