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Definition of Diminishable
1. a. Capable of being diminished or lessened.
Definition of Diminishable
1. Adjective. That may be diminished ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diminishable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diminishable
Literary usage of Diminishable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified by Herbert Spencer (1865)
"... tress diminishable by act-of-parliament bounty is a delusion. A statement of
the case in terms of labour and produce will quickly make this clear. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by Thomas Flower Ellis, Colin Blackburn Blackburn, Francis Ellis, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1860)
"... case is arrived at easily, and is clearly not diminishable by the addition of
the 10 per cent. which the appellants claim. [Coleridge J. If the owner ..."
3. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836)
"... degree diminishable by the ensuing summer, must have become permanent, and
beyond the power of all the known and ordinary dissolving agents of nature. ..."
4. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Johann Schobert, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1847)
"All the judges hold office for seven years, with a compensation not diminishable
during their term. Slavery is prohibited ; and no indenture of a negro or ..."
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