Meaning of colourably | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [B2]

Examples

“Afterwards it was thought so Sacramentall, that no adultery or desertion could dissolve it; and this is the sense⟳ of our Canon Courts in England to this day, but in no other reformed Church els: yet there remains in them also a burden on it as heavie as the other two were disgracefull or superstitious, and of as much iniquity, crossing a Law not onely writt’n by Moses, but character’d in us by nature, of more antiquity and deeper ground then marriage it selfe; which Law is to force⟳ nothing against the faultles proprieties of nature: yet that this may be colourably done, our Saviours words touching divorce, are as it were congeal’d into a stony rigor, inconsistent both with his doctrine and his office; and that which he preacht onely to the conscience, is by Canonicall tyranny snatcht into the compulsive censure of a judiciall Court; where Laws are impos’d even against the venerable and secret power of natures impression, to love⟳ what ever cause be found to loath.”

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