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translatable, a.|trɑːnsˈleɪtəb(ə)l, træns-, -nz-|
[f. translate v. + -able.]
Capable of being translated.
1745H. Walpole Corr. (1846) II. 15, I..without having recourse to the Countess's translatable periods, am pleased with his company. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 88 Modes of expression scarcely translatable into the only technical language in which that mind is wont to think. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. viii. 164 What is really best in any book is translatable.
Hence translataˈbility, transˈlatableness.
1867Ludlow Fleeing to Tarshish 115 To carry on his cogitations for him, with their accustomed wondrous translatability by the imagination. 1882Athenæum 4 Mar. 278/1 We own to a certain scepticism as to La Fontaine's translatableness. 1911Munro Fundamentals 31 The Translatability of Scripture. |