apprehensible

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ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being apprehended or understood
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How To Use apprehensible In A Sentence

  • By reason of this last it was inapprehensible to him that there could be an objection to the sexes co-operating indiscriminately in work. The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage
  • However much it grasps metaphorically at a less tangible if still apprehensible object of our experience of fiction, to speak of "quality of vision" does not adequately account for the concrete achievements of writers as stylists. Translated Texts
  • Things begin to 'mean more' and the ciphers to reveal themselves just at the moment that they become inapprehensible. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The novelty of the avowal rendered what it carried with it inapprehensible by him in its entirety. The Woodlanders
  • What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.
  • The modern commercial nation to which Ferguson belongs, as a British subject, a Highlander by birth but one born too late to claim to be the scion of an independent Scotland, in fact typifies a state in which the press of numbers and the extent of territory have begun to make the bonds of society inapprehensible. Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union
  • The new popular poetry reminds literati that auditory poetry virtually always employs apprehensible formal patterns to shape its language.
  • Nevertheless, allowing for all imagined possibilities, -- granting even the likelihood of some inapprehensible relation between all past and all future conditioned-being, -- the tremendous question remains: What signifies the whole of apparitional existence to the Unconditioned? The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories
  • As archetypes they are as apprehensible as Greek statuary.
  • It was enough for him to understand that the world had forked along a path that was inapprehensible, alien, and opaque. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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