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dowable

/ˈdaʊəbəl/

dowable adjective: capable of being endowed.

Adjective

dowable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being endowed.
  2. Entitled to dower.
    • all wives would have become dowable of such lands as were held to the use of their husbands1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Origin of dowable

From Middle French dowable; equivalent to dow + -able.

Questions about dowable

What does dowable mean?
Dowable means capable of being endowed.
What part of speech is dowable?
Dowable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dowable?
Dowable is pronounced /ˈdaʊəbəl/.

Words near dowable in the dictionary

  1. Dovzhansk
  2. dow
  3. Dow Jones
  4. Dow process
  5. Dow theory
  6. dowable
  7. dowage
  8. dowager
  9. dowager's hump
  10. dowager's humps
  11. dowagerial

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