concealable

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English

Etymology

conceal +‎ -able

Adjective

concealable (comparative more concealable, superlative most concealable)

  1. Able to be concealed.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5,[1]
      [] he denied the omnisciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable.
    • 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative” in Lectures and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 141,[2]
      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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