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副詞

construably (not comparable)

1. In a way that is plausible to construe; in a way that is plausibly construable.

   Coordinate terms: conceivably, plausibly, possibly

   • 1915, William Carew Hazlitt, chapter LXI, in The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall, A.D. 409-1797‎, volume II: 1457–1797, Adam and Charles Black, page 836:

     The elder Donato was regarded as an eminent Hellenist.³ A collection of 129 sermons, various letters, a pamphlet on benefices, and other pieces of current interest are also ascribed to this learned divine who became Bishop of Padua.⁴ A Manual for the use of the confessor, entitled Modo generale di confessarsi, by Fra Marino Baldo, exists in an impression of the sixteenth century, but is construably of much earlier origin. It provides for all contingencies; even if the confessor has to challenge tailors and shoemakers on their commercial doings.

   • 1970, “Colloquy”, in Records and Briefs, New York State Appellate Division‎, volume 57, page 456:

     I think, without citing a case, that your Honor will know, and I think we all know, that the defendant would have had to make it unequivocally clear that he wished to go through a proceeding without a lawyer, even if he was advised he could have one. There is no such evidence in this case whatsoever. There is nothing in the transcription; there is nothing in the minutes; there is nothing in the recording, which can construably mean that the defendant waived his right to counsel, or put it aside, or decided to appear for himself, or in any way lifted the burden of the prosecution from providing counsel or from pausing until he had counsel.

   • 2009, Walter Nugent, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism (Vintage Series)‎, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN, page 90:

     As most wars do (construably victorious ones, anyway), the Canadian–American War of 1812–1814 provided both sides with icons that aided each in developing their respective nationalisms. American schoolbooks and patriotic occasions have looked back with awe and gratitude to Captain James Lawrence's "Don't give up the ship" as his U.S.S. Chesapeake was captured on June 1, 1813; […] Canadians revere General Sir Isaac Brock and renamed a St. Lawrence River town after him. They venerate Laura Secord, the housewife who ran twenty miles through the Niagara swamps and thickets on June 22, 1813, to warn the British-Canadian forces […] Most of all, Canadians pride themselves in having beaten back an invasion by the armies of a country a dozen times larger than theirs and thereby teaching that invader not to try it ever again. Although it took at least a generation for the events of 1812 to consolidate into a nationalist story, it became "one of the great myths of Canada as a nation."¹⁹