Meanings
adjectivedamageable (comparative more damageable, superlative most damageable)
comparative more damageable · superlative most damageable
- obsoleteHurtful; pernicious.
That it be not damageable vnto your royall maiestie.
1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC1 more example
Verily experience makes us thereby feele and undergoe many damageable treasons.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Origin
Translations
Italian intaccabile, danneggiabile
- intaccabilecapable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage
- danneggiabilecapable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage
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