[Ads-l] commemorable

[Barretts Mail]

“Commemorable” is not in the English OLD or accepted by my Word for Windows spellchecker or my Mac spellchecker.

Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/commemorable): Worthy of being commemorated.
Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commemorable <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commemorable>): worthy of being commemorated 

Numerous examples are available on the internet, e.g.:

1. 1725
https://bit.ly/2EiF18S <https://bit.ly/2EiF18S>
The SPELLING DICTIONARY OR, A COLLECTION OF ALL The common WORDS and Proper NAMES made use of in the ENGLISH TONGUE, p. 28
Thomas Dyche

The word is written showing stress.

2. 1780
https://bit.ly/2OdVG2i <https://bit.ly/2OdVG2i>
"George Carleton” in Biographia Evangelica: OR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND DEATHS Of the most eminent and evangelical AUTHORS OR PREACHERS, Both BRITISH and FOREIGN, ..., Volume 2, p. 456
Erasmus Middleton

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… exclusively of the many other first-rate worthies, who constituted and adorned this commemorable assembly; and doubt, if you can, whether the sun could shine on a living collection of more exalted piety and stupendous erudition. 
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3. 1780
https://bit.ly/2C5NuJV <https://bit.ly/2C5NuJV>
A General Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 1
Thomas Sheridan

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COMMEMORABLE, [pronunciation key]. a. Deserving to be mentioned with honour.
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4. June 1804
https://bit.ly/2RBAeSC <https://bit.ly/2RBAeSC>
_Biblical Criticism._ in “New Version of the Eucharistic Histories.” in The Universal Theological Magazine and Impartial Review, Volumes 1-2, p. 322
Eucharistes

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And here let me ask, is it probable, is it possible that the same term or word, at one and the same time, and in one and the same place, should express or represent a commemorable object, and also the instrument or symbol by which that objects is to be commemorated? 
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(Numerous words in italics)

5. 2016
https://bit.ly/2Pu5z8E <https://bit.ly/2Pu5z8E>
From empire to exile: History and memory within the _pied-noir_ and _harki_ communities, 1962–2012, p. 282
Claire Eldridge

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As historian Robert Berlot reminds us, citizens traditionally feel that ‘the state must deplore, denounce and pronounce on the good and the bad, the true and the false, the commemorable and the non-commemorable’.
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Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA


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