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Alterable

adjective
1.
Capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic.  "Alterable conditions of employment"
2.
(of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe.





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"Alterable" Quotes from Famous Books



... remember that its institution are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good, we may make better. Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. ...
— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... half the difficulties and pains—of half the nobleness also—of a man's life. Not in mere wealth and poverty, she thought, but in things of quite another order—things of social sympathy and relation—alterable at every turn, even under existing conditions, by the human will, lie the real barriers that ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Alterable" :   commutable, law, unalterable, alter, alterability, jurisprudence


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