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Meaning of overrulable | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

That can be overruled.

not-comparable

Examples

“On this level of generality we reason about rights not in a doctrinally fixed but in a prima facie way, that is, as qualifiable or overridable, though not (and this is a crucial point) as directly overrulable rights.”
“That leaves, to distinguish the rock-solid, unamendable disposition of Roe from the readily overrulable Bowers, only the third factor.”
“Any groupist or selfish aggression or competitiveness and so on humans naturally tend to feel is only a tendency or a latent potential, not an inevitability. Emotions here are overrulable or redirectable.”

CEFR level

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