Answerably vs Answerable - What's the difference?
answerably | answerable |
In suitable proportion; proportionately.
In a corresponding manner; correspondingly.
* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Robert Louis Stevenson, title=The Black Arrow, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Many of the ships, as they could see by the clear moonshine, had weighed anchor, and, profiting by the calm sky, proceeded for more distant parts; answerably to this, the rude alehouses along the beach (although in defiance of the curfew law, they still shone with fire and candle) were no longer thronged with customers, and no longer echoed to the chorus of sea-songs. }}
Obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.
(archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable ((to)).
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
(rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
As an adverb answerably
is in suitable proportion; proportionately.As an adjective answerable is
obliged to answer or be called to account ({{term|to}} somebody); accountable, responsible.answerably
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Adverb
(en adverb)citation
answerable
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Alternative forms
* aunswerable (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
- What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
- To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
- The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable . --Johnson.