bereavable
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bereavable (not comparable)
- (rare) Able to be bereaved.
- 1846 June, “Celebrated Women”, in The Englishwoman's magazine and Christian mother's miscellany, page 322:
- At the age of four she read exceedingly well; and from a very babe, as her bereavable mother soon after her death declared, the utmost regularity was observable in all her actions.