Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being resisted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being repugned or resisted.
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- adjective Capable of being
repugned orresisted .
Etymologies
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repugn + -able
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Examples
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For all that he hath written, are geometrical propositions, which are without comparison of any other writings whatsoever: because the subject where of they treat, doth appear by demonstration, the maker gives them the grace and the greatness, and the demonstration proving it so exquisitely, with wonderful reason and facility, as it is not repugnable.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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