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Definition of Tellable
1. a. Capable of being told.
Definition of Tellable
1. Adjective. That may be told ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tellable
1. tell [adj] - See also: tell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tellable
Literary usage of Tellable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the by Robert Wilson Neal (1914)
"It must not only be tellable, it must be tellable in a narrative that obeys
dramatic principles. It is easy to agree that philosophy and science are ..."
2. Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the by Robert Wilson Neal (1914)
"... submit itself to the methods of dramatic narrative.4 It must not only be
tellable, it must be tellable in a narrative that obeys dramatic principles. ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"... its purpose and benefit ; what stories are tellable, and why; the best authors
of such stories ; how to tell them ; the old stories were compared and ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by Sir William Blackstone, John Williams, Richard Burn (1791)
"... of fuch of his goods as were tellable, whether that were only part or the
whole of them, he was, and is, ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Edward Christian (1800)
"... of fuch of his goods as were tellable, whether that were only part or the
whole of them, he was, and is, ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The company receiving the benefit of the laws of the State for the protection of
its property and its rights tellable to be taxed upon its real or personal ..."
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