Improableness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Improvable \Im*prov"a*ble\, a. [From {Improve}.]
     1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement;
        admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or
        of being advanced in good qualities.
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              Man is accommodated with moral principles,
              improvable by the exercise of his faculties. --Sir
                                                    M. Hale.
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              I have a fine spread of improvable lands. --Addison.
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     2. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable;
        serviceable; advantageous.
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              The essays of weaker heads afford improvable hints
              to better.                            --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
        -- {Im*pro"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*prov"a*bly}, adv.
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