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Definition of Expugnable
1. a. Capable of being expugned.
Definition of Expugnable
1. Adjective. Capable of being expugned. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expugnable
Literary usage of Expugnable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"... or expugnable •only for a while. It comes back again and again like an exile
to its home, where the reasonings that chase it away are as foreigners and ..."
2. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... fortress for no earthly bold Of temporal quarrel, but the bastion old Of
spiritual wrong, Built by an unjust nation sheer and strong, expugnable but by ..."
3. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1849)
"I. p. it was given. Fray Arredondo is 323) gives the date and title, and also
the author of "El Castillo In- little else. The only copy of the expugnable y ..."
4. The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1913)
"... Built by an unjust nation sheer and strong, expugnable but by a nation's rue
And bowing down before that equal shrine By all men held divine, ..."
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