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Imitable adj.

Capable of being imitated or copied. "The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers."

Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities.

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Etymology of 'Imitable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imitable" Quotes from Famous Books

... human life; and the New Testament optimism is well illustrated by its conviction that that life in its essential features can, with the grace of God, be imitated by man. And by those who have approached it in this spirit of optimism it has been found imitable. Innumerable men and women have lived the Christian life in the past and are living it in the present. To-day the possibility of living the Christian life, of bringing life approximately to the standard of the Gospel, is declared to be an impracticable piece of optimism, ...

— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry

... train,—when these vices, which gender and spawn in dirt, and are nursed in dunghills, come and pollute with their slime that throne which ought to be a seat of dignity and purity, the evil is much greater; it may operate daily and hourly; it is not only imitable, but improvable, and it will be imitated, and will be improved, from the highest to the lowest, through all the gradations of a corrupt government. They are reptile vices. There are situations in which the acts of the individual ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12) • Edmund Burke