dowable

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/ˈdaʊəbəl/

adjective

Capable of being endowed.

OriginMiddle French dowable →
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Meanings

adjectivedowable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCapable of being endowed.
  2. not comparableEntitled to dower.

    all wives would have become dowable of such lands as were held to the use of their husbands

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchdowable
  2. Englishdowable

From Middle French dowable; equivalent to dow + -able.

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APA

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Chicago

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