Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being abolished or annulled, as a law, rite, custom, etc.; that may be set aside or destroyed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being abolished.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being abolished
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another of his principles was cleanliness; “the speedy abolition of all abolishable filth is the first process of education.”
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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Another of his principles was cleanliness; "the speedy abolition of all abolishable filth is the first process of education."
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It is they who, preventing concentration and regulation of un-abolishable evils, promote their distribution and liberty.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Happily and unhappily poverty is not abolishable: "The poor ye have always with you" is a sentence that can never become unintelligible.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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And yet, as we said, Hope is but deferred; not abolished, not abolishable.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Thirdly, for a difference to become an inequality it must also be abolishable.
Eurozine articles 2009
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