Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Placability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being placable.
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- noun The state or quality of being
placable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What a wonderful and heart-melting revelation of God's placableness, wistful hoping against hope, and reluctance to abandon the most indurated sinner, is given in that centuries-long conflict of the patient God with treacherous Israel!
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The character of the young King had in it some traits which excited his apprehension; he prayed earnestly that they might be found (as many people said they were) merely the exuberance of youth; and that the acknowledged grace and affability of his manners, and the placableness of his temper, might ornament, but not supplant, those christian virtues and noble principles which had so eminently distinguished his father.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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