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Webster 1913 Edition

(r?-pr??v′?-b’l)

Adj.

[Cf. F.

réprouvable

Worthy of reproof or censure.

Jer. Taylor.

Syn. – Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable.

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Re-prov′a-ble-ness

Noun.

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Re-prov′a-bly

adv.

Adj.

[from reprove.] Worthy of reproof; deserving censure; blamable.

reprovable ‎(comparative more reprovable, superlative most reprovable)

reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
(Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
- 2004, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, chapter 9, in The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village, ISBN 0415330459, page 429:
  Feeling hungry, she wanted to ask for food (an unthinkable action in conscious behavior) and so knocked on the door, but when nobody answered she entered the house (again a reprovable action) and saw a bearded man sitting in the single room.