declinable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of declinable
1520–30; < Middle French, equivalent to decliner to decline + -able -able; or decline + -able
Example Sentences
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The word two however is declinable as a noun, and possibly it may be so taken in Locke's phrase.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The same nouns may be partly declinable and partly indeclinable, and in some of their cases may have fallen out of use.
From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin
In the beginning of certain cases and tenses of declinable words, it may often be known from their grammatical connection, but is not marked by any graphical index whatever.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
As for t'one and t'other, they should be 'tone and 'tother, being elisions for that one and that other, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
This has been written to show that verbs of languages in general are as naturally declinable as nouns.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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