ignoscible
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ignoscibilis, from ignoscere (“to pardon; literally, not to wish to know”), from in- (“not”) + gnoscere, noscere (“to learn to know”).
Adjective
[edit]ignoscible (comparative more ignoscible, superlative most ignoscible)
- (obsolete, rare) pardonable
- 1900, Landis Ayr, A Priest and a Woman:
- The waves seemed to have closed over the Umbar episode, perhaps owing to his own ignoscible treatment of the subject and the absconding rogues.