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Definition of Resistible
1. Adjective. Capable of being resisted or withstood or frustrated. "Such resistible temptations"
Definition of Resistible
1. a. Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.
Definition of Resistible
1. Adjective. able to be resisted ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resistible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resistible
Literary usage of Resistible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. by William Ellery Channing (1894)
"... exalting the Divinity obscures these conceptions, our religion is sublimated
into mysticism or degraded into servility. resistible : still man is free. ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1846)
"... and. an apartment was appropriated to him, both in their house at Southwark,
and in their villa at Streatham. resistible foice, " Un gentilhomme ett ..."
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