Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being donated or given.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being donated or given.
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- adjective Capable of being
donated orgiven .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am strongly tempted to give the names of two or three of those little boys, as a testimonial of the gratitude and affection I bear them; but pru - dence forbids; -- not that it would injure me, but it might embarrass them; for it is almost an unpar - donable offence to teach slaves to read in this Chris - tian country.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845
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So that in proportion to the dignity, the bulk, and the number of these, an abuse is either more or less aggravated or par - donable?
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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Taking this for granted, it was a great and unpar - donable fbible in one of so exahed an understanding.
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Mr. Barnes has great comic excellence in testy and eccentric old men; he has a little bias to buffoonery, which, though very par - donable in an actor in his line, he would do well to correct.
The Monthly mirror: reflecting men and manners; with strictures on their epitome, the stage .. 1795
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J, however, make ufe of it, becaufe it was K -? terally the cafe, and therefore I truft 'tis par - donable: - — in the conrff. of our laft ftage, we overtook a gentleman who had been making a little excurfion in his phaeton; we found him
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a shrewd Constantinopolitan, most people supposed that the Porte had sent him to watch the proceedings of Mohammed Aly, and give information accordingly to the Sultan; and it struck me that his behaviour towards myself was connected with an intention of accusing the Pasha, on his return to Constantinople, of having protected a Christian in his visit to the holy cities, a crime which would be considered unpar-donable in a
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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But befides this general, there is (as I d before) another more reftrain'd notion Piety, as it rentes to our niqxe immediate tercourfe with God, in divine Ordinances d Worfhip * in which refpe hopelefs, tlwt wheuthe Apoftte recolle&s tQ tlje Ephejimu the wretchednefs of their Genttfe State, he do's °\% in thole very words* Efk z. i% m And fure, thofe that live fo under £hnfti4nity, ue not in a better, but worfe Condition, by bow much the contempt of God is more unpar - donable than the ignorance.
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