accompanable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkʌmp.nə.bəl/, /əˈkʌmp.ən.ə.bəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]accompanable (comparative more accompanable, superlative most accompanable)
- (Early Modern, obsolete) sociable
- c. 1580, Philip Sidney, “The First Booke”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, folio 6, recto, page 6:
- As for the houses of the country (for many other houses came vnder their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th’ other, & yet not so far off as that it barred mutuall succor: a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, & of a ciuil wildnes.