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dowable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdaʊəbəl/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable of being endowed.
  2. (not-comparable) Entitled 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: