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Meanings of equable in English

Not easily irritated.

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Usage of equable in English
1
In winter time the climate is equable; in summer it is unbearable.
With the British Army in The Holy Land
2
He had found Eva less equable in her tender management than usual.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 08
3
It flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
4
A complete, equable circulation of the blood is thereby most perfectly secured.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
5
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
Leaves of Grass
6
There is about it an equable sobriety, a sort of average endurableness.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
7
A full and equable contempt would soon do away with that, too.
Victory: An Island Tale
8
Their waters boil very gently, with an equable and almost rhythmic flow.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer / and Her Travels in Many Lands
9
The climate was declared to be unequalled, salubrious, equable, pleasant and bracing.
Greener Than You Think
10
The wise man's watch is his equable temper and his peaceful heart.
Emile
11
The one was calm, patient, practical, equable, the other imaginative, unbalanced, excitable.
Red Pottage
12
It was all very disturbing to a man of Pobloff's equable disposition.
Visionaries
13
She had lost her childish vivacity-hersweet, equable flow of good humor.
The Two Destinies
14
He's not got precisely what you'd call an equable temperament, has he?
The Vision of Desire
15
An equable climate the year round is the best for the chicken business.
The Dollar Hen
16
The climate of the whole island is warm and moist and very equable.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
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