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reˈvealable, a. [f. reveal v. + -able.] Capable of being revealed.
1672Penn Spir. Truth Vind. 29 The Blessed Things which God hath prepared..are not revealable, but by his Spirit. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 75 Reverend Paradoxes and reverable (tho' not revealable to the Prophane) Errors of some true Sons of the Church. 1807Coleridge To a Gentleman 8 Thou hast dared to tell What may be told, to the understanding mind Revealable. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 347 That Truth which is..the more loved because never wholly revealable. Hence reˈvealableness (Webster, 1847). |