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"etymology_text": "chance + -able",
"forms": [
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"ref": "1595, Philip Sydney, An Apology for Poetry",
"text": "And so far were they carried into the admiration thereof, that they thought in the chanceable hitting upon any such verses, great foretokens of their following fortunes were placed.",
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"Happening by chance; accidental; fortuitous; casual"
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"(obsolete) Happening by chance; accidental; fortuitous; casual"
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"(obsolete) Happening by chance; accidental; fortuitous; casual"
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