Arraignable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Arraignable is an adjective meaning (law) Capable of being arraigned.
Meaning
(law) Capable of being arraigned.
More Meanings
- (law) For which a person is liable to be arraigned.
Example Sentences
A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.
[…] however I may be arraignable for any Error in my Judgment, I am perfectly free from aught of Sinister in my Intention with regard to the present Matter.
[…] if a Parliament be triable and arraignable before the King himselfe: Then hath the King an unlimited declarative power of Law above all Courts, in his own breast;
1881, T. W. Rolleston, letter dated 29 January, 1881, in Whitman and Rolleston: A Correspondence, Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1952, p. 22, Their words may not have been arraignable by law, (though in many cases they were so) but they were such as their hearers could give but one interpretation to.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include indictable, adjudicable, arrestable, convictable, abatable, imprisonable.
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