deprivable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From deprive +‎ -able.

Adjective[edit]

deprivable (comparative more deprivable, superlative most deprivable)

  1. Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
  2. (obsolete) Liable to be deposed.
    • 1643, William Prynne, “(please specify |part=1 to 4, or Appendix)”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: [], London: [] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC:
      Kings of Spain [] deprivable for their tyrannies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deprivable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)