Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The termination of abstract nouns formed in -ity from adjectives in -ible, as in credibility, legibility, etc., from credible, legible, etc. It is properly the double suffix -bility, with a preceding original or euphonic vowel i-. Compare -ability, and see -bility.
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Examples
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The Pakistan Taliban claimed respons ibility for an attack this month on Karachi's revered Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine, which killed eight people.
Teenage Recruit Joins Jihad Tom Wright 2010
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While, as Nancy says, suspense fiction doesn't require series-ibility, the crime-solving subgenre does seem to demand it.
It's a Mystery Roger Sutton 2008
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There is the Matisse landscape, The Pink Wall, that was somehow obtained by Kurt Gerstein, an SS officer with specific responsibility for delivering Zyklon B to the camps who eventually took his own life in July 1945.
Stolen Art Exhibited Hels 2009
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There is the Matisse landscape, The Pink Wall, that was somehow obtained by Kurt Gerstein, an SS officer with specific responsibility for delivering Zyklon B to the camps who eventually took his own life in July 1945.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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The lure of firmness and slice-ibility, led me to ricotta salata.
Toast: Lindy 2007
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Let us think about the question's implications as regards our response-ibility.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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The lure of firmness and slice-ibility, led me to ricotta salata.
Ricotta Salata Lindy 2007
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The lure of firmness and slice-ibility, led me to ricotta salata.
cheese Lindy 2007
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These particles were protected by a distortion of the fields of vis - ibility.
Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975
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He says they was sworn by three former employes of the Bureau which was fired for in-competence and in-com-pat-ibility by Kingsley-Schultz.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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