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Answer for the clue "Worthy of copying ", 8 letters:
imitable

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Word definitions for imitable in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from French imitable (16c.), from Latin imitabilis "that may be imitated," from imitari (see imitation ). Related: Imitability .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being imitated or copied. 2 Worthy of imitation.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imitable \Im"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. imitabilis: cf. F. imitable. See Imitate .] Capable of being imitated or copied. The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers. --Atterbury. Worthy of imitation; ...

Usage examples of imitable.

This is self-perfective activity, the patterned plan, and it is this evidence in nature that tends to be supportive of the notion of a divine essence imitable outside itself and that also tends to lead us implicitly to the conclusion that self-perfective free activity in this life leads to beatitude in the next.

The President had then turned his wizened-apple head toward her and, in his highly imitable Yankee voice, said, “.