exorable

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  1. Susceptible of being moved or persuaded by entreaty. He seemes offended at the very rumour of a Parlament divulg'd among the people: as if hee had tak'n it for a kind of slander that men should think him that way exorable, much less inclin'd. Milton, Eikonoklastes, i. It [religion] prompts us … to be patient, exorable. and reconcileable to those that give us greatest cause of offence. Barrow, Works, I. i.

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  • Never, at any period, has a more expressive face been formed by the genius of man; it is a masterpiece of childlike grace and saintly innocence Here, amid the pensive architecture of the twelfth century, one of a crowd of devout statues, symbolical to some extent of simple love in an age when men were in perpetual dread of everlasting hell, she seems to stand at the Gate of the Lord as the exorable image of forgiveness. —  The Cathedral
  • If a placable and exorable —  Meditations
  • Some entertain harsher thoughts of the Father, as if Christ were more accessible, and exorable. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Nine -- yet, virgins themselves, they should be exorable to a Virgin —  Kenilworth
  • Yet that _exorable_ Russian is less an elevated realist than an evangelic socialist. —  Là-bas
 

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  1. = French exorable = Spanish exorable = Portuguese exoravel = Italian esorabile, from Latin exorabilis, from exorare, move by entreaty, gain by entreaty: see exorate.
 

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