Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being vanquished; conquerable; subduable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be vanquished.
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- adjective That can be
vanquished ;defeatable ,conquerable .
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- adjective susceptible to being defeated
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Examples
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He scorns all that are so silly to _trust_ [53] him, and only not scorns his enemy, especially if as bad as himself: he fears him as a man well armed and provided, but sets boldly on good natures, as the most vanquishable.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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But prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason; so, to escape the serenade from the tree, which promised to be of considerable duration
Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821
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Had I been a Papist, I should not have wished for a more vanquishable opponent in controversy.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Even though trains ran on time and files reportedly moved quicker through the labyrinthine bureaucracy, the totalitarian excesses that the Emergency brought in its wake led to the Congress party, hitherto considered to be un-vanquishable on a national scale, being decimated in the elections of 1977.
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Engaging a war on drugs is as stupid as declaring war on stupidity, as if they are vanquishable objects.
The Liberty Papers 2009
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Both hold that Man is naturally good and improvable, that human conflict is unnatural and vanquishable, that chaos and bloodshed around the world are primarily the fruits of some flawed policies of the West (Wilsonians) or the result of our insufficient "engagement" (neoconservatives).
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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Both hold that Man is naturally good and improvable, that human conflict is unnatural and vanquishable, that chaos and bloodshed around the world are primarily the fruits of some flawed policies of the West (Wilsonians) or the result of our insufficient "engagement" (neoconservatives).
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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And, O Bharata, she granted unto Arjuna a boon making him invincible in water, saying, 'Every amphibious creature shall, without doubt, be vanquishable by thee.'"
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O Bharata, she granted unto Arjuna a boon making him invincible in water, saying, 'Every amphibious creature shall, without doubt, be vanquishable by thee.'"
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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