abolishableadj.

1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. Abolishable, Amortissable, abrogable.

1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 137 That the Moral Law, as 'tis a Rule of Life and Manners, is not in it self Abolishable.

1794 (title) A short treatise on the unfair purchase of the slaves, and their barbarous usage from Africa to the West Indies... That the trade is abolishable only by an act of Parliament.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. viii. 83 Hope is but deferred; not abolished, not abolishable.

1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 180 This Leonidas..shall abolish—so far as abolishable—his own spirit.

1962 Yale Law Jrnl. 72 323 We are so used to the idea that poverty is abolishable.

1989 S. Žižek Sublime Object Ideology iii. 128 All phenomena which appear to everyday bourgeois consciousness as simple deviations..and as such abolishable through amelioration of the system are necessary products of the system itself.

2003 A. Collier Christian Belief iii. 50 Feminists see that if Engels was right, it is shown that male domination is not inevitable, and hence is more likely to be abolishable now.