Both Uses
liable
in
A Modest Proposal
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- I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.†
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- Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(liable as in: is legally liable) legally responsible
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(2)
(liable as in: she is liable to) likely to; or maybe going to; or subject to
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)