Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being bestowed.
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- adjective Capable of being
bestowed .
Etymologies
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From bestow + -able.
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Examples
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Another French writer reckoned it the highest eulogy bestowable, and it seems as if he was not far wrong, whether we have before us dogs or men.
'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Ernest Gambier-Parry 1894
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To lie there was the highest honour bestowable, and Dan had wholly earned it.
'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Ernest Gambier-Parry 1894
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The hand of a sculptor may, indeed, be as subtle as that of a painter, but all its subtlety is not bestowable nor expressible: the touch of Titian,
The Two Paths John Ruskin 1859
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