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dominability

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The quality of being dominable (all senses).

Examples

“A further source of difficulty may be that in English, “S” can dominate “N" as well as the reverse; this property of mutual dominability excludes any structural way of disentangling the two categories in intermediate cases.”
“On the rare occasions when I saw⟳ Paula, his poor little wife, mostly at university social functions, it was obvious that the success of their relationship lay⟳ in her dominability.”
“In Macbeth, which my students will begin⟳ next week, the king's horses on the night of his assassination burst⟳ out of their stalls, turning "wild in nature," the rule⟳ of their sweet dominability and loyalty broken.”
“What I wanted to draw⟳ attention to in my remarks is not any sort⟳ of fantasy of total dominability of mines, war regions or the world as a whole, but rather the much more far-reaching question⟳ of the relation between technical means, knowledge and history.”
“For algebraic manifolds in general, we prove⟳ that strong algebraic dominability, a weakening of algebraic subellipticity, is preserved by an arbitrary blow-up with a smooth centre..”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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