demandable

American  

[di-mand-uh-buhl] / dɪˈmænd ə bəl /

adjective

1. able or eligible to be demanded.

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Other Word Forms

• demandability noun

Example Sentences

It does not, as has been already remarked, amount to mathematical demonstration; nor is this degree of proof justly demandable in any question of moral conduct.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon

Rajah Gorbuksh Sing came yesterday, at sunset, to pay his respects, and promised to pay to the Oude Government all that is justly demandable from him.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

With Sir Edmund Andros, was sent over the college charter; and the subsequent assembly declared, that the subscriptions which had been made to the college were due, and immediately demandable.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

So long as gold was demandable for their paper, they were speedily apprised of a depression of the exchange, and a rise in the price of gold, by a run upon them for that article.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

It is not so much the proprietors of the estate or the Government as the cultivators themselves who demand every year a readjustment of the rate demandable upon their different holdings.

From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William