Definitions
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- noun The state of being
manageable ;tractableness ;docility .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun capable of being managed or controlled
Etymologies
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Examples
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He felt dizzy, felt simultaneously small and huge, powerful and powerless, dwarfed and ennobled by the might and manageableness of things.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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He felt dizzy, felt simultaneously small and huge, powerful and powerless, dwarfed and ennobled by the might and manageableness of things.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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He felt dizzy, felt simultaneously small and huge, powerful and powerless, dwarfed and ennobled by the might and manageableness of things.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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He felt dizzy, felt simultaneously small and huge, powerful and powerless, dwarfed and ennobled by the might and manageableness of things.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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Here, if nowhere else, her small size and manageableness were in her favour.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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The advantage of Professor Tait's apparatus is its manageableness and the certainty with which the desired result can be produced.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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The only requisite is manageableness of the ship herself and of the numbers she carries on board.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890
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It is of them that I would talk a little, for my own comfort partly, and also because I am sticking all the time to my subject to illustrate my point, the point of manageableness which I have raised just now.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890
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On the other side, but equally healthful, may be put the fact that the style and structure of the originals and earlier versions, and especially that verse division which has been now so unwisely abandoned, served as safeguards against the besetting sin of all prose writers of their time, the habit of indulging in long wandering sentences, in paragraphs destitute of proportion and of grace, destitute even of ordinary manageableness and shape.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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They were, like the others, much impressed by its vast power and manageableness.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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