namable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unnamable adjective
Example Sentences
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No namable printer appears at Haarlem until the end of 1483, when Jacob Bellaert set up a short-lived press there.
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They are not summa genera of existences, still less are they to be explained as a classification of namable things in general.
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The article on Sign Language includes a number of full- or half-length drawings of named or namable sources.
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A man leads his fellows—many of whom are his superiors in most namable qualities—simply because of something unnamable in him that makes him assume the leadership, and they accept it.
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A good plaster cast is a daguerreotype, so to speak, of a great statue, though it may be bought for five or six dollars, while its original is not to be had for any namable sum.
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