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colourably

adv. (alternative form of colorably English)

Usage examples of "colourably".

There is no other place that can so much as colourably be drawn, to countenance the Casting out of the Church faithful men, such as beleeved the foundation, onely for a singular superstructure of their own, proceeding perhaps from a good & pious conscience.

So great, however, was his necessity that, after pondering every method whereby the Jew might be induced to be compliant, at last he determined to devise a colourably reasonable pretext for extorting the money from him.