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Definition of Avertible
1. Adjective. Capable of being avoided or warded off.
Derivative terms: Avert, Avert, Avoid
Antonyms: Inevitable
Definition of Avertible
1. a. Capable of being averted; preventable.
Definition of Avertible
1. Adjective. Capable of being averted; preventable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avertible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avertible
Literary usage of Avertible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1880)
"... and CHAP. by this time, the state of the general controversy as to the cause
of the ' avertible ' suffering had become so cleared and so narrowed, ..."
2. Shooting by Horatio Gordon Hutchinson (1903)
"We would say, though, that a great deal of this mischief is avertible, and when
it is not avertible, it is assessable. ..."
3. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"Here we have an evil Fate— a planetary will, or ill-will, making for the iron
hegemony of Germany, yet avertible by a gigantic effort of the rest of the ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... avertible forms, some one or other of the largely increasing number and variety
of diseases that affect the brain and produce partial and temporary or ..."
5. Hand-book of the Law of Torts by Edwin Ames Jaggard (1895)
"... or in (b) Failing to take proper care to avoid harm after the latter has, or
ought to have, knowledge of impending and avertible danger. ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"... vindication of this earles persecution, cast a malignant aspect upon the houses
of Suffolke and Salisbury, thought no waies avertible but by his death. ..."
7. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1892)
"... being rooted in the very nature of men and of society, and those to which its
reception exposes us are doubtful, distant, and avertible. ..."
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