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Palpable   /pˈælpəbəl/   Listen
Palpable

adjective
1.
Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt.  Synonym: tangible.  "Felt sudden anger in a palpable wave" , "The air was warm and close--palpable as cotton" , "A palpable lie"
2.
Can be felt by palpation.





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"Palpable" Quotes from Famous Books



... discovering the fact of the lameness, while the second and third remained unanswered, and the identification of the affected limb and the point of origin of the trouble remained unknown until their palpable revelation ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... daughter Jacqueline, a damsel of seventeen. Little need to trace the career of the fair and ill-starred Jacqueline. Few chapters of historical romance have drawn more frequent tears. The favorite heroine of ballad and drama, to Netherlanders she is endued with the palpable form and perpetual existence of the Iphigenias, Mary Stuarts, Joans of Arc, or other consecrated individualities. Exhausted and broken-hearted, after thirteen years of conflict with her own kinsmen, consoled for the cowardice ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... about her still; something indescribable but quite palpable—something out of which she looked at you as from ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... time"—"Prevention is better than cure"—"Where the lambs go the flocks will follow"—"It is easier to form than to reform," and so on ad infinitum—proverbs multiply. The advantages of preventive work are so palpable that as soon as you broach the matter you ought to find your case proved and judgment awarded to the plaintiff, before you open your ...
— Children's Rights and Others • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... At half-past three o'clock the barometer had fallen to 27:62. Save when lighted by occasional flashes of sheet-lightning, which showed to the cowed wretches their awe-stricken faces, this tragedy of the elements was performed in a darkness which was almost palpable. ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke


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