concealable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]concealable (comparative more concealable, superlative most concealable)
- Able to be concealed.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “A Further Illustration of the Same”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 6:
- […] he denied the omniſciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable.
- 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative”, in Lectures and Biographical Sketches[1], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, page 141:
- A bag of sequins, a jewel, a balsam, a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]able to be concealed
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