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temptable, a.|ˈtɛm(p)təb(ə)l|
Also 9 -ible.
[f. tempt v. + -able.]
That may be tempted; liable or open to temptation.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] lxvi. 188 There is sometimes a selfe-constancie, that is not temptable. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §15. 268 Whether or no a Philosopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. iv. ⁋21 If the parliament of Ireland were as temptable as any other assembly within a mile of Christendom. 1819Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 239 Macbeth's mind, rendered temptible by previous dalliance..with ambitious thoughts. 1883J. Parker Apost. Life II. 319 In all points temptable though invulnerable.
Hence temptaˈbility, ˈtemptableness, accessibility to temptation.
1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 78 What can this freedom of Will consist in so much as in a temptableness by other Objects that are of an inferiour nature? 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 223 A soul surrounded with temptation, and having the worst temptation within itself in its own temptability. |