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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

incarcerable en · ADJ

Etymology

From incarcerate + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.
    • The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent. 1999, Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria: