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supportable

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sup·port·a·ble  (s-pôrt-bl, -pr-)
adj.
Bearable; endurable.
sup·porta·bili·ty n.
sup·porta·bly adv.
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Adj.1.supportable - capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment"
bearable, endurable, sufferable
tolerable - capable of being borne or endured; "the climate is at least tolerable"


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If I were a natural philosopher, I would tell him that if less of caloric were set in motion upon the planets which are nearest to the sun, and more, on the contrary, upon those which are farthest removed from it, this simple fact would alone suffice to equalize the heat, and to render the temperature of those worlds supportable by beings organized like ourselves.
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And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away.
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She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable.
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