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Definition of "subduable" [sub•du•a•ble]

  • That can be subdued; domitable. (adjective)

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Use "subduable" in a sentence
  • "This is due to somewhat less favourable circumstances, to a nobler and less manageable race of aborigines; the land perhaps more beautiful, is by the very character of its beauty less subduable."
  • "She was never melancholy with those who were suffering; not because she had no sympathy for she was profoundly sympathetic -- but because she was subduable."
  • "Thus far one of its votaries: and all that he vaunts to have acquired by this mysterious faculty of enthusiasm is the having rendered it "at length perfectly subduable.""
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