单词 | allowingly |
释义 | allowinglyadv.ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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