accompanable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

accompany +‎ -able

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkʌmp.nə.bəl/, /əˈkʌmp.ən.ə.bəl/
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Adjective[edit]

accompanable (comparative more accompanable, superlative most accompanable)

  1. (Early Modern, obsolete) sociable
    • c. 1580, Philip Sidney, “The First Booke”, in Mary Sidney, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: [] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, page 6:
      As for the houses of the country (for many other houses came vnder their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th’ other, & yet not so far off as that it barred mutuall succor: a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, & of a ciuil wildnes.