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Definition of Quotability
1. Noun. The quality of being worthy of being quoted.
Definition of Quotability
1. Noun. The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quotability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quotability
Literary usage of Quotability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1907)
"In the work of Pope, one of the most quoted authors, the epigrams are so wonderfully
uniform in quality, point and quotability that there is no discernible ..."
2. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"Now quotability, always an asset, was a real step forward at a time when readers
... But it is not through quotability alone that Young helped to bring the ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"quotability, fitness for quotation. ... to which is owing their especial
quotability.—EA foe, Marginalia, xxviii. ..."
4. James Russell Lowell as a Critic by Joseph John Reilly (1915)
"... not, in a word, for any intrinsic merit they possess as criticism in a high
degree, but mainly for their quotability.1 quotability does not prove Lowell ..."
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