Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a supportable manner; so as to be supportable or endurable.
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- adverb In a
supportable manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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With a good horse to whirl me over the world for two hours daily, I used to keep myself supportably well.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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There's nothing about our current GOP that can be supportably described as "mainstream."
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Sara Robinson, Blog for Our Future 2010
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There's nothing about our current GOP that can be supportably described as "mainstream."
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If it be our duty to invoke hb. blessing, yet there must surely be something in - supportably profane in wantonly and unnecessarily, putting all that he is able to inflift Xipon us upoh conditions.
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a good horse to whirl me over the world for two hours daily, I used to keep myself supportably well.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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