Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being, or liable to be, lost.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Liable to be lost.

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  • adjective Liable to be lost.

Etymologies

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Latin amissibilis: compare French amissible.

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Examples

  • This would mean any evidence used to procecute users would be amissible in a court of law because they broke the law to obtain it.

    RIAA ’sue ‘em all’ conference 2005

  • This would mean any evidence used to procecute users would be amissible in a court of law because they broke the law to obtain it.

    RIAA ’sue ‘em all’ conference 2005

  • They denied that rulers hold their power from the nation; that, however oppressive may be their rule, that they are justiciable by any human tribunal, or that power, except by the direct judgment of God, is amissible.

    The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839

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