Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being imitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being imitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property or status of being
imitable .
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Examples
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Aquinas appealed to a sort of non-real mode of existence of divine ideas, originating from the relations of imitability holding between divine essence and possible creatures, so that the existence of divine ideas is purely of reason.
Paul of Venice Conti, Alessandro 2005
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In the imitability on the part of creation, St. Thomas finds the secret of the world of phenomena.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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But it is upon that possibility that the general imitability of the English Government depends.
The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851
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Constitution could only be made out of a curious accumulation of mediaeval materials, its interest would be half historical, and its imitability very confined.
The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851
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