tallageability

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/ˈtælɪd͡ʒəbɪləti/

noun

Extent to which someone is tallageable.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nountallageability (plural tallageabilities)

plural tallageabilities

  1. Extent to which someone is tallageable.

    In the thirteenth century there is ample evidence that the Domesday was consulted, particiularly in questions of tallageability […]

    1953 June 29, Robert Shibley Moth, The Royal Tallage of Three Escheated Honors, With Introductory Notes Concerning the Farm of Those Honors, State University of Iowa
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    These lists served to give the King a clue as to the tallageability of the Jews, and afforded him a means of compensation in case they did not pay the impost.

    1888 May 31, “The English Exchequer of the Jews”, in The Nation, volume XLVI, number 1196, New York: The Evening Post Publishing Company, via the Internet Archive, page 443

    […] and, to a lesser extent, the maintenance against a few southern barons with special prerogatives of the tallageability of the Jews to the crown's profit, assured that there would be a good return in the south on the periodic exactions on the Jews.

    1989 June 29, William Chester Jordan, “Prelude to the Great Expulsion”, in The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 188

Origin

  1. Old Frenchtaillier
  2. Frenchtailler
  3. Frenchtaillage
  4. Middle Englishtallage
  5. Englishtallage
  6. Englishtallageability

From tallage + -ability.

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APA

tallageability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tallageability

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Chicago

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