TENABLY
Etymology
Adverb
tenably (comparative more tenably, superlative most tenably)
In a tenable manner.
Source: Wiktionary
TENABLE
Ten"a*ble, a. Etym: [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See
Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant,
Tent.]
Definition: Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an
assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a
tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your
silence still. Shak.
I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was
tenable. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition