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Definition of Shakeable
1. Adjective. Capable of being weakened. "The crisis proved his confidence was shakable"
Definition of Shakeable
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of shakable) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shakeable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakeable
Literary usage of Shakeable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"... and sea then did signify, that one day they were to bo removed ; yea, the word
signifies the removing of things shakeable (or as the margin varies it, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"There are some misguided people who fancy that, in his love and un- shakeable
fidelity to man the dog stands alone, and they quote in triumph the ..."
3. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"In 901, "the un- shakeable pillar of the West Saxons, a man full of justice, bold
in arms, learned in speech, ..."
4. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"In 901, "the un- shakeable pillar of the West Saxons, a man full of justice, bold
in arms, learned in speech, and above all, filled with the knowledge which ..."
5. Reflections of a Russian Statesman by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev (1898)
"... shakeable and fanatical, he holds to the principles of Anglican orthodoxy,
the base of which he declares is the recognition of social duty, ..."
6. Reflections of a Russian Statesman by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev (1898)
"There is no hypocrisy which he does not glorify as truth in his justification of
the Reformation and of its protagonists. Un- shakeable and fanatical, ..."
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