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Revocable   /rˈɛvəkəbəl/   Listen
Revocable

adjective
1.
Capable of being revoked or annulled.  Synonym: revokable.






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"Revocable" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretence of cancelling one crime by another; and you can no more have forgiveness without vindictiveness than you can have a cure without a disease. You will never get a high morality from people who conceive that their misdeeds are revocable and pardonable, or in a society where absolution and expiation are officially provided for us all. The demand may be very real; but the supply is spurious. Thus Bill Walker, in my play, having assaulted the Salvation Lass, presently finds himself overwhelmed with an intolerable ...
— Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw

... mentioned the hypothesis held as an approximation of reality—this is the truly scientific position. It is accompanied by a provisional and ever-revocable belief. This is admitted, in principle at least, by all scientists, and has been put into ...
— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot



Words linked to "Revocable" :   voidable, rescindable, reversible, irrevocable



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