Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being subdued; conquerable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Able to be subdued.
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- adjective That can be
subdued ;domitable .
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- adjective susceptible to being subjugated
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is due to somewhat less favourable circumstances, to a nobler and less manageable race of aborigines; the land perhaps more beautiful, is by the very character of its beauty less subduable.
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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She was never melancholy with those who were suffering; not because she had no sympathy for she was profoundly sympathetic -- but because she was subduable.
The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872
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Thus far one of its votaries: and all that he vaunts to have acquired by this mysterious faculty of enthusiasm is the having rendered it "at length perfectly subduable."
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Even the chickens are subdued, and they are generally about as subduable as seagulls.
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Even the chickens are subdued, and they are generally about as subduable as seagulls.
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"I must ingenuously confess," he says, "that I have a natural touch of enthusiasm, in my complexion, but such as I thank God was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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