Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Susceptible of being frightened.
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- adjective Capable of being
frightened .
Etymologies
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frighten + -able
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Examples
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Thus Hobbes makes a state of war the natural state of man from the essential and ever continuing nature of man, as not a moral, but only a frightenable, being: -- Spinosa makes the same state a necessity of man out of society, because he must then be an undeveloped man, and his moral being dormant; and so on through the whole.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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