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Provable   /prˈuvəbəl/   Listen
Provable

adjective
1.
Capable of being demonstrated or proved.  Synonym: demonstrable.  "A demonstrable lack of concern for the general welfare" , "Practical truth provable to all men"






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"Provable" Quotes from Famous Books



... pragmatic tests. That is, the spiritual beliefs aren't. Any belief that could be disproven by such a test would eventually die out. But beliefs in ghosts or demons or angels or life after death aren't disprovable by material tests, any more than they are provable. So, as a race increases its knowledge of the physical world, its religion would tend to become more ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... her before she left Washington, and that a man was engaged here to go on to Philadelphia the same day with her to give notice there of her case, though I think he failed to do so. It was beyond all question her purpose, before leaving Washington and provable too, that if Wheeler should make her a free woman by taking her to a free state ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... chieffe of the Spencers, of which sometymes were the Earles of Winchester and Glocester, and Barons of Glamorgan and Morgannocke." This, no doubt, is a very distinguished origin; but, alas! the earliest provable ancestors of this "noble" family were respectable and well-to-do Warwickshire graziers, and the first authentic title on the true pedigree is the knighthood conferred on John Spencer in 1519, less than four centuries ago. Similarly the Russells, Dukes of Bedford, are said ...
— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall



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