Definition of "estimable"
estimable
adjective
comparative more estimable, superlative most estimable
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[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book VI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], footnote
(archaic) Valuable.
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A pound of man's flesh taken from a manIs not so estimable, profitable neither,As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
Capable of being estimated; estimatable.
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