dowable

adj — 2 senses

dowable

adj

/ˈdaʊəbəl/

Etymology From Middle French dowable; equivalent to dow + -able.

1

Capable of being endowed.

2

Entitled to dower.

  • all wives would have become dowable of such lands as were held to the use of their husbands1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

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