sperable

English

Etymology

From Latin sperabilis. Compare esperance and see -ible.

Adjective

sperable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) hopeful or hoped for
    • 1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy Warre. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC, page 107:
      wee may either cast it away, if it be found but a Bladder; Or discharge it, of so much as is vaine, and not sperable.

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