supportable
adjEtymology From Middle English supportable, equivalent to support + -able, or possibly from Middle French supportable.
1
Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
- A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:
2
Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.
- [...]supportable To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I Have lost my daughter.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- Derived terms
- supportableness, supportably, unsupportable