temptable

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English

Etymology

From Middle English temptable, probably from Old French temptable, variant of tentable; compare Latin tentābilis; equivalent to tempt +‎ -able.

Adjective

temptable (comparative more temptable, superlative most temptable)

  1. Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
    • 1678, R Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: Richard Royston, , →OCLC, page 268:
      As concerning the Infamous and Diabolical Magick, he that would know whether or no a Philoſopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it, []

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