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Definition of Capablest

1. capable [adj] - See also: capable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capablest

Literary usage of Capablest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"Joan charmed them every one with her sweetness and simplicity and unconscious eloquence, and all the best and capablest among them recognized that there was ..."

2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"In those mines and prisons are gathered together the very finest and noblest and capablest multitude of human beings that God is able to create. ..."

3. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the by Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Burnet (1823)
"He was a man of great parts, but of too much craft: he was thought the capablest man for business, and the best speaker in that kingdom. ..."

4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1865)
"The head in a child I wish great and round, which is the capablest figure, and the freest from all restraint and compression of the parts; for since in the ..."

5. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time by Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Burnet (1833)
"He was a man of great parts, but of too much craft: he was thought the capablest man for business, and the best speaker in that kingdom. ..."

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