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generable

American  
[jen-er-uh-buhl] / ˈdʒɛn ər ə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being generated or produced.


generable British  
/ ˈdʒɛnərəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be generated

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Other Word Forms

  • generability noun
  • generableness noun
  • ungenerable adjective

Etymology

Origin of generable

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin generābil ( is ) creative, productive, equivalent to gener ( āre ) to beget, produce ( gender 2 ) + -ābilis -able

Example Sentences

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To be fair, Euronext do operate multiple venues with a lot of trading and they are reliable in generable.”

From BusinessWeek

It is the simultaneous separating and joining of the generable and the ingenerable, the two modes of the Self-generable; it is the link between personal and impersonal, bound and free, finite and infinite.

From Project Gutenberg

Second, "Those who claim that life and everything, besides the bare substance of matter, or extended bulk, is merely accidental, generable, or corruptible, rising out of some mixture or modification of matter."

From Project Gutenberg

Then for as much as they were the first obseruers of all naturall causes & effects in the things generable and corruptible, and from thence mounted vp to search after the celestiall courses and influences, & yet penetrated further to know the diuine essences and substances separate, as is sayd before, they were the first Astronomers and Philosophists and Metaphisicks.

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The generable cosmos, therefore, was generated from the ingenerable Fire.

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