"bonifiable" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From bonify + -able.",
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      "form": "more bonifiable",
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          "ref": "1985, Raymond Lulle, Anthony Bonner (traducteur), Selected works of Ramon Llul, Princeton University Press, page 1234",
          "text": "Since glory is as bonifiable as it is intelligible, the saints in glory are glorified as much through bonifying as through understanding."
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          "ref": "2010, Fiona Somerset, Nicholas Watson, The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity, The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 50",
          "text": "The acts of goodness, I call bonificative, bonifiable, and bonifying, while those of greatness are magnificative, magnifiable, and magnifying, and so on for the other aforesaid dignities."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Kevin Jones, Jorno, lulu.com, page 148",
          "text": "I hope I'll be dreaming of someone realistically bonifiable soon."
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          "ref": "1997, Miquel Bertran, Teodor Rus, Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Transformation-Based Reactive Systems Development - 4th International AMAST Workshop on Real-Time Systems and Concurrent and Distributed Software, ARTS'97 Palma, Mallorca Spain, May 1997 Proceedings, Springer - Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, page 9",
          "text": "Moreover, anything active has to have a point of departure (in the case of the thing that produces good, he called it \"bonificative\"), an object which it affects (the \"bonifiable\"), and the act itself going from one to the other (that is, which \"bonifies\")."
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          "ref": "2015, Dick Guttman, Starflacker: Inside the Golden Age of Hollywood, R Guttman Associates, Inc., (unpaginated)",
          "text": "She does the same thing to English. She's convinced the non-word \"bonifiable\" means certifiable or impervious to contradiction, and it's accepted as such by the people to whom she says it."
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        "Capable of being bonified; improvable."
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          "ref": "1985, Raymond Lulle, Anthony Bonner (traducteur), Selected works of Ramon Llul, Princeton University Press, page 1234",
          "text": "Since glory is as bonifiable as it is intelligible, the saints in glory are glorified as much through bonifying as through understanding."
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Fiona Somerset, Nicholas Watson, The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity, The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 50",
          "text": "The acts of goodness, I call bonificative, bonifiable, and bonifying, while those of greatness are magnificative, magnifiable, and magnifying, and so on for the other aforesaid dignities."
        },
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          "ref": "2008, Kevin Jones, Jorno, lulu.com, page 148",
          "text": "I hope I'll be dreaming of someone realistically bonifiable soon."
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          "ref": "1997, Miquel Bertran, Teodor Rus, Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Transformation-Based Reactive Systems Development - 4th International AMAST Workshop on Real-Time Systems and Concurrent and Distributed Software, ARTS'97 Palma, Mallorca Spain, May 1997 Proceedings, Springer - Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, page 9",
          "text": "Moreover, anything active has to have a point of departure (in the case of the thing that produces good, he called it \"bonificative\"), an object which it affects (the \"bonifiable\"), and the act itself going from one to the other (that is, which \"bonifies\")."
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        "Capable of being bonified; improvable."
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