1611. Cotgr., Perdable, loosable; fit, or likelie, to be lost.
1647. Trapp, Marrow Gd. Auth., in Comm. Ep., 683. Grace in itself is losable.
1658. Baxter, Saving Faith, vi. 49. There are many common gifts in man that are no more loseable then saving Grace.
1674. Boyle, Tracts, Positive Nat. Cold, vii. 49. I heard him make inquiry,… Whether the frigorifick faculty of these Corpuscles be loosable or not?
1877. T. A. Trollope, Life Pius IX., II. III. v. 45. Those who might be supposed losable by it, are lost already.
Hence Losableness.
1658. Baxter, Saving Faith, vi. 49. I do not think … that the loosing of one, and not loosening, or not loosableness, of the other, will prove a specifick difference.
