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losable, loseable, a.|ˈluːzəb(ə)l|
Also 7 loosable.
[f. lose v.1 + -able.]
Capable of being lost.
1611Cotgr., Perdable, loosable; fit, or likelie, to be lost. 1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Auth. in Comm. Ep. 683 Grace in itself is losable. 1658Baxter Saving Faith vi. 49 There are many common gifts in man that are no more loseable then saving Grace. 1674Boyle Tracts, Positive Nat. Cold vii. 49, I heard him make inquiry,..Whether the frigorifick faculty of these Corpuscles be loosable or not? 1877T. A. Trollope Life Pius IX, II. iii. v. 45 Those who might be supposed losable by it, are lost already.
Hence ˈlosableness.
1658Baxter Saving Faith vi. 49, I do not think..that the loosing of one, and not loosening, or not loosableness, of the other, will prove a specifick difference. |