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Definition of Mentionable
1. a. Fit to be mentioned.
Definition of Mentionable
1. Adjective. Worthy of note, or important ¹
2. Adjective. To say that a concept, or subject, can be openly talked about, or mentioned. Not taboo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mentionable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mentionable
Literary usage of Mentionable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Rationalism: The Development of a Constructive Realism Upon the by Edward Gleason Spaulding (1918)
"For the One may prove to be but self-contradictory,—mentionable, of course, along
with other entities, but, as a species, differentiated from them. ..."
2. Black-Robes, Or, Sketches of Missions and Ministers in the Wilderness and on by Robert Peebles Nevin (1872)
"mentionable MEN AMONG THE PREACHERS OF THE BORDER. WHEN the material is considered
of which the Methodist ministry in border-days was composed, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"In Germany the mentionable events are still fewer; and indeed, but for one small
circumstance binding on us, we might skip them altogether. ..."
4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... Diet, after adjournments, after one long adjournment, disappeared 5th March
1768; and of work mentionable it had done this of the Dissidents only. ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... alas, 'it went to all lengths, mentionable, and not mentionable: ' and M.
le Marquis had to be coaxed home in the Spring of ' 1749, — still earlier it ..."
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