- (a.) Praiseworthy; laudable.
- (a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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