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brandable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English brand Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English brandable From brand + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be branded or stigmatized.
   • Far too confidently, we assume that perpetrators are human beings radically different from ourselves, brandable as totally evil or as fanatical or deranged, that we are in no moral respects like them and they in no moral respects like us. 2011, Trudy Govier, Forgiveness and Revenge, page 118:
2. (of a product) Which may be marketed under a brand name.

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rebranded