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Alterable

adjective
1.
Capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic.  "Alterable conditions of employment"
2.
(of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe.





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"Alterable" Quotes from Famous Books



... generally, and also in our behauiours the more easily to put it in execution. But by reason of the sundry circumstances, that mans affaires are as it were wrapt in, this [decencie] comes to be very much alterable and subiect to varietie, in so much as our speech asketh one maner of decencie, in respect of the person who speakes: another of his to whom it is spoken: another of whom we speake: another of what we speak, and in what place and time and to what purpose. And as it is of speach, so of ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham
 
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