Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being revealed.

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  • adjective Capable of being revealed.

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  • adjective Able to be revealed; capable of revealing.

Etymologies

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reveal +‎ -able

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Examples

  • _Sephiroth_, which reveal all that is revealable in God, and by means of which invisible and visible worlds come into being.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • The distinction between the revealable and unrevealable, which has been already expressed by the contrast of 'glory' and 'grace,' now appears in the distinction between the 'face' which cannot be looked on, and the 'back' which may be.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • I know, of course, that all that is but the imperfect presentation of partially apprehended, and partially revealed, and partially revealable truth.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Her face was of those that require the unattainable artist, whose hand can paint the reflection of inward fires and render that luminous vapor which defies science and is not revealable by language -- but which a lover sees.

    The Lily of the Valley Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • There is one of those revealable road signs concreted into place on the road into Wootton Bassett.

    An Englishman's Castle 2009

  • There is one of those revealable road signs concreted into place on the road into Wootton Bassett.

    An Englishman's Castle 2009

  • There were photos of the olden days (taken by the Japanese) displayed in the Museum, you can see these white people in their bare skin, getting skinnier from photo to photo and until, only descriptions of the condition of their health and lifestyle were only revealable through words.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • What the actual object of all this gyration may have been, is not revealed, nor, probably, _revealable_ by a "Governor of the Hudson's Bay territories," who, having the fear of _other_ governors before his eyes, dedicates his two handsome volumes to "The Directors of the Hudson's Bay

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

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