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Definition of Alarmable
1. a. Easily alarmed or disturbed.
Definition of Alarmable
1. Adjective. Easily alarmed; excitable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alarmable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alarmable
Literary usage of Alarmable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... could / go through five months and a half of pain PI am already so shattered
with these attacks, that my nerves are as alarmable as the sensitive plant. ..."
2. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann by Horace Walpole (1844)
"I am already so shattered with these attacks, that my nerves are as alarmable as
the sensitive plant. The clapping of a door makes me start aud tremble; ..."
3. A History and Some Records of the Volunteer Movement in Bury, Heywood by T. H. Hayhurst (1887)
"In those days of happy rusticity the provincial mind was extremely susceptible—to
coin a word, alarmable. There was less gregariousness, and consequently ..."
4. A History and Some Records of the Volunteer Movement in Bury, Heywood by T. H. Hayhurst (1887)
"In those days of happy rusticity the provincial mind was extremely susceptible—to
coin a word, alarmable. There was less gregariousness, and consequently ..."
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