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colourable
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colourableadjective
Colourful.
colourableadjective
Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
colourableadjective
Deceptive; fake, misleading.
colourableadjective
That can be coloured.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Colourableadjective
Specious; plausible. It is now little used.
Etymology: from colour.
They have now a colourable pretence to withstand innovations, having accepted of other laws and rules already. Edmund Spenser.
They were glad to lay hold on so colourable a matter, and to traduce him as an author of suspicious innovation. Richard Hooker.
Had I sacrificed ecclesiastical government and revenues to their covetousness and ambition, they would have found no colourable necessity of an army. Charles I .
We hope the mercy of God will consider us unto some mineration of our offences; yet had not the sincerity of our parents so colourable expectations. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
colourable
Ships' papers so drawn up as to be available for more purposes than one. In admiralty law, a probable plea.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of colourable in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of colourable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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