namable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unnamable adjective
Example Sentences
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There her dust mingles with that of John Bunyan, of Daniel de Foe, of Isaac Watts, of William Blake, of Thomas Stothard, and a multitude of nameless or of most namable others.
From London Films by Howells, William Dean
The front yard was bare of every vestige of grass and contained a clutter that seemed to embrace everything namable, including a gravestone.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
There are not so many namable varieties, I just now said, of robin as of falcon; but this is somewhat inaccurately stated.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John
The article on Sign Language includes a number of full- or half-length drawings of named or namable sources.
From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various
Our pragmatist view, on the contrary, is that the truth-relation is a definitely experienceable relation, and therefore describable as well as namable; that it is not unique in kind, and neither invariable nor universal.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
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