— pregnability , n.
/preg"neuh beuhl/ , adj.
1. capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
2. open to attack; assailable: a pregnable argument.
[ 1400-50; late ME prenable prenable, pregnable, equiv. to pren- (weak s. of prendre to seize, take pre ( he ) ndere; see PREHENSION) + -able -ABLE; -g- perh. from obs. expugnable (in same sense) ]