Middle English Dictionary Entry
louāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | louāble adj. Also lowable, loweable, lowuabil. |
| Etymology | OF löable, louable. This adj. is difficult to distinguish, either in form or in meaning, from ME lōvāble adj.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Praiseworthy, admirable.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Rolle Encom.Jesu (Hrl 1022)188 : Þou sal be [a] gloriouse & a lowabul [vr. lowuabyll] ouercomer.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)6.103 : Rape þe to by-gynne Þe lyf þat ys lowable [vr. louable] and leel to the soule.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)18.130 : Loue lawe with-oute leaute, lowable [vrr. allowable, alowable] was it neuere.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)166a/a : Neþerlez it is more loweable [*Ch.(2): more worthi; L laudabilius] for to wirche with symple, who so may, þan with componed.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)266 : Whanne euer to a lawful and a loweable eende ben necessarie meenys.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)52/31 : Gete þe goodis of this worlde in lowable and worschupfulle maner.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)142/33 : For a lowable cause and a resonable cause, and þerfore iustli and profitabli, þis lawe was maad.
- (a1460) DSPhilos.(Helm)85/4 : There bene but two men that bene lowable in their lyfe.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)54/29 : It is nedful to a kynge..þat good lose of his name sprede, of his lowable wyt.