Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Capability of being removed, as from an office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Liability to be
removed ordismissed fromoffice .
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Examples
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Favre's project which would have compelled the Church to re-establish the non-amovability of certain members (desservants) of the lower clergy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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If prejudice, however, derived from a monarchical institution, is still to prevail against the vital elective principle of our own, and if the existing example among ourselves of periodical election of judges by the people be still mistrusted, let us at least not adopt the evil, and reject the good, of the English precedent; let us retain amovability on the concurrence of the executive and legislative branches, and nomination by the executive alone.
Letters 1760
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