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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

temptable en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English temptable, probably from Old French temptable, variant of tentable; compare Latin tentābilis; equivalent to tempt + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
    • As concerning the Infamous and Diabolical Magick, he that would know whether or no a Philoſopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it, […] 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, page 268:

Forms

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more temptable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most temptable Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

temptableness · untemptable