† aggravableadj.
Obsolete.
Tending to or characterized by aggravation.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > that causes deterioration
withering1579
aggravative1648
aggravable1664
disimproving1813
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > exacerbation of suffering > [adjective]
aggravable1664
embittering1872
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 112 This horrid reproach against the Person of Christ is still the more aggravable.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. 407 I have not met with any Thing of the Genus scandalosum so aggravable as this.
1860 C. Blanchard Relig. of Sci. iv. 37 Owing to the neglect of the collective body to take either general or palliative measures; but, on the contrary, the most aggravable ones, those parts in collective man..become so outraged thereby, that excision by them..may be necessary to self-preservation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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