lowableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

形容詞

lowable

1. (obsolete) Permissible or commendable .
   • 1538, July 22 John Butlare, letter, quoted in 1846, Thomas Cranmer, The Works of Thomas Cranmer, page 373:

     Further to advertise your grace, that I have declared to the prior that his third article is not lowable; […]

   • 1654(?), Thomas Raynalde, The Birth of Mankind [...] Fourth Edition, Corrected, Etc, page 5:

     […] concerning onely honest and healthsome decoration and cleanlinesse, alwayes most lowable and commendable in a woman : […]

   • 1714, John Gillan, Some Remarks Upon Sir James Dalrymple's Historical Collections, page 18:

     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, […]