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Webster 1913 Edition


Reprovable

Re-prov′a-ble

(r?-pr??v′?-b’l)
,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
réprouvable
.]
Worthy of reproof or censure.
Jer. Taylor.
Syn. – Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable.
Re-prov′a-ble-ness
,
Noun.
Re-prov′a-bly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reprovable

REPROVABLE

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

Definition 2024


reprovable

reprovable

English

Adjective

reprovable (comparative more reprovable, superlative most reprovable)

  1. 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.

Derived terms

  • reprovableness
  • reprovably