Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bodily form; stature; personage.
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- noun The quality of being
personable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive
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Examples
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I'm going to take that as a compliment of my personableness.
"In Left Blogistan, where Ann is often derided and mocked as a conservative partisan, there will surely be howls today." Ann Althouse 2007
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On the, the shmear personableness is cheaply wavelike to language that are killing brainwashed grounder.
POWET.TV 2009
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In his easy intimacy, in his personableness itself, he draws me in to subsume me. erotic aphorist, on the other hand, confronts me with the contradictions within my preconceptions in an attempt to overturn them, to find a new conceptual possibility.
Superfluities Redux 2008
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I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young. "
Persuasion 1892
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I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young. "
Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892
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