bereavable

adj

bereavable

adj

Etymology From bereave + -able.

1

Rare Able to be bereaved.

  • At the age of four she read exceedingly well; and from a very babe, as her bereavable mother soon after her death declared, the utmost regularity was observable in all her actions.1846 June, “Celebrated Women”, in The Englishwoman's magazine and Christian mother's miscellany, page 322:

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