dissoluble
Americanadjective
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capable of being dissolved.
tablets dissoluble in water.
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capable of being destroyed, as through disintegration or decomposition.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of dissoluble
1525–35; < Latin dissolūbilis, equivalent to dissolū-, stem of dissolvere to dissolve + -bilis -ble. See dis- 1, soluble
Example Sentences
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But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Confarreatio was only dissoluble by diffarreatio, but this was perhaps used only for penal purposes.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
It instinctively desires that either the bond should be dissoluble, or that the subjects of it should be sacramentally strengthened to maintain it.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
Even this imperfect and dissoluble connection has been but little attended to.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes, without injury, by the adamant of Shakspeare.”
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
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