superable
IPA: supɝʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being overcome or surmounted; surmountable or conquerable.
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Examples of "superable" in Sentences
- Tn-. superable obstacles having arisen against the union sin CHARLES GRANDISON.
- No inconvenience is less superable by art or diligence than the inclemency of climates, and therefore none affords more proper exercise for this philosophical abstraction.
- All cultivation requires watchfulness and additional precautions, either more or less: you must not, for the sake of a few superable difficulties, resign the otherwise unattainable refinement effected by poetry.
- But, were I to allow, that the obstacle in question, is as great, as you regard it -- nevertheless will it not increase with the lapse of years, and become less superable the longer the work of abolition is postponed?
- It is indeed certain, that impressions of dread may sometimes be unluckily made by objects not in themselves justly formidable; but when fear is discovered to be groundless, it is to be eradicated like other false opinions, and antipathies are generally superable by a single effort.
- He was not, he said, deterred by the danger and difficulty which was evi - dently to be encountered, but he was deterred by the ignominy of desertion, to be followed by the hypo - crisy of enlisting with the enemy; neither of which comported with his feelings, and either placed an in - superable bar in his way to promotion.
- Our firmness is by the continual contemplation of misery, hourly impaired; every submission to our fear enlarges its dominion; we not only waste that time in which the evil we dread might have been suffered and surmounted, but even where procrastination produces no absolute increase of our difficulties, make them less superable to ourselves by habitual terrours.