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ignoscible

ignoscible adjective: pardonable.

Adjective

ignoscible (comparative more ignoscible, superlative most ignoscible)

  1. (obsolete, rare) pardonable
    • The waves seemed to have closed over the Umbar episode, perhaps owing to his own ignoscible treatment of the subject and the absconding rogues.1900, Landis Ayr, A Priest and a Woman

Forms of ignoscible

comparativemore ignoscible
superlativemost ignoscible

Origin of ignoscible

From Latin ignoscibilis, from ignoscere (“to pardon; literally, not to wish to know”), from in- (“not”) + gnoscere, noscere (“to learn to know”).

Questions about ignoscible

What does ignoscible mean?
Ignoscible means pardonable.
What part of speech is ignoscible?
Ignoscible is an adjective.

Words near ignoscible in the dictionary

  1. ignorizing
  2. ignorome
  3. ignoromes
  4. ignorosphere
  5. ignortion
  6. ignoscible
  7. ignosterol
  8. ignostic
  9. ignosticism
  10. ignostics
  11. ignote

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