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surmountable, a.|səˈmaʊntəb(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -able. Cf. F. surmontable.]
That may be surmounted; conquerable, superable.
1611Cotgr., Surmontable, surmountable, surpassable. 1669Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington Wks. 1720 II. 191 He saw there would be another Difficulty less surmountable than all the rest. 1745Young in Richardson's Corr. (1804) II. 12 Evils they are, but surmountable ones. a1806Horsley Serm., Luke iv. 18–19 (1816) I. 218 The temptations of all situations are equally surmountable. 1904W. M. Ramsay Lett. Seven Churches iv. 49 The difficulties of cultivation are no longer surmountable by a passive and uninventive population.
Hence surˈmountableness.
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