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Definition of Pacable
1. a. Placable.
Definition of Pacable
1. Adjective. placable; able to be easily pacified ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pacable
1. willing to forgive [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacable
Literary usage of Pacable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"I had hardly sent that last Roundabout Paper to the printer (which, I submit,
was written in a pacable and not unchristian frame of mind), when Saturday ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"I had hardly sent that last Roundabout Paper to the printer (which, I submit,
was written in a pacable and not unchristian frame of mind), when Saturday ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"... revengeful, but avaricious, being always pacable with money. The primitive
dress of the men is simply a buckskin girdle about the loins ; of the women, ..."
4. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"And well you looked, didn't you, flyin' down through an ould hill's side among
pacable people?—An' this is all thrue? no one tould you? ..."
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