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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
amenable /əˈmiːnəb(ə)l/
adjective
  • 1 easily influenced or controlled.
  • 2 (amenable to) capable of being treated in a particular way.
– derivatives
amenability noun,
amenably adverb.
– origin C16 (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): from OFr. amener ‘bring to’ from a- ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from L. minari ‘threaten’).



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