concealable

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Etymology

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conceal +‎ -able

Adjective

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concealable (comparative more concealable, superlative most concealable)

  1. Able to be concealed.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, “A Further Illustration of the Same”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], London: [] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, [], →OCLC, 1st book, page 6:
      [] he denied the omniſciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable.
    • 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative”, in Lectures and Biographical Sketches[1], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, page 141:
      A bag of sequins, a jewel, a balsam, a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

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