supposable
Example Sentences
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Fleda wondered afresh; it struck her as scarcely supposable that some sign shouldn't have flashed from Poynton to London.
From The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
No other infinite act, and no other result, are rationally supposable.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Common necessity, or necessity in the original use of the word, refers to the connexion between volition and its effects; for here an opposition to will is supposable.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
When the greater force is greater than all supposable will, then its sequents take place by a general relative necessity.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
"Odd, significantly odd, that in all its essential details this affair should tally so completely with the supposable case of crime given a moment before by the deformed wretch you tell me about."
From Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
