publishableadj.
/ˈpʌblᵻʃəbl/, U.S. /ˈpəblᵻʃəb(ə)l/ rare before 19th cent.
That may be published or made public; suitable for publication.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [adjective] > that may be published or made public
publishable1587
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1329/1 In somuch that speaking of the daie whereon they died, they blushed not to intitle them martyrs, saieng among other things not publishable, as in these few verses [etc.].
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 226 They..would..have been dead before that part of the correspondence was publishable, according to her will.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 317 The two new cantos of Don Juan, which he says have been sent back to Lord Byron, to be softened into something like a publishable shape.
1891 Longman's Mag. July 326 It is not a publishable story.
1933 C. St. John Sprigg Fatality in Fleet Street v. 61 ‘Nothing publishable,’ answered Charles.
1963 M. Cowley Let. 4 Sept. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 347 But it will take me another month to make it publishable.
1996 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 228/4 (advt.) You are shown..where to find ideas, how to turn them into publishable writing and how to sell them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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