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pregnable

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preg⋅na⋅ble

  [preg-nuh-buhl]
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–adjective
1. capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
2. open to attack; assailable: a pregnable argument.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME prenable < MF prenable, pregnable, equiv. to pren- (weak s. of prendre to seize, take < L pre(he)ndere; see prehension ) + -able -able; -g- perh. from obs. expugnable (in same sense)

Related forms:
preg⋅na⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
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preg·na·ble   (prěg'nə-bəl)   
adj.  Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.

[Middle English preignable, pregnabul, from Old French prenable, pregnauble, from prendre, to grasp, from Latin prehendere, prēndere; see ghend- in Indo-European roots.]
preg'na·bil'i·ty n.
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