a. [f. QUOTE v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being quoted; suitable for quoting.

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1821.  Examiner, 14 Jan., 27/1. Passages of a still more quotable nature.

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1849.  Thoreau, Week Concord Riv., Thurs. 326. The Spectators and Ramblers have not failed to cull some quotable sentences.

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1883.  Manch. Exam., 27 Nov., 4/6. There is no quotable change at any of the spot markets.

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  Hence Quotability, Quotableness. Also Quotably adv., in a quotable manner, so as to be quoted.

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a. 1849.  Poe, Marginalia, Wks. 1865, III. 500. It is the prosaicism of these two writers to which is owing their especial quotability.

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1881.  Daily News, 17 Jan., 3/3. Cotton yarns are not quotably dearer.

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1888.  Athenæum, 24 Nov., 693/2. This uncouthness interferes with the quotableness … of not a few anecdotes amusing enough in themselves.

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