incarcerable

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Etymology

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incarcerate +‎ -able

Adjective

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incarcerable (not comparable)

  1. Suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.
    • 1999, Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria:
      The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent.
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