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unreˈprovable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Irreprovable, irreproachable. (Common c 1550–1680.)
1382Wyclif Tobit x. 13 Monestende hir..to gouerne the hous, to ȝiue hirself vnreprefable. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 691 Cleopatra, Vnreprouable on to myn wyfhod ay, The same wolde I fele, lyf or deth. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 227 In life and conuersacion vnreprouable. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 76 b, Whose wordes and deedes we may accoumpt without exception unreproveable. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 135 She was..of life vnreproueable. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. i. 4 Historiographers, and other unreproveable Authors. 1712Steele Spect. No. 302 ⁋14 Ye guardian Angels,..lead her gently hence innocent and unreprovable to a better Place. 1791Cowper Iliad ix. 650 Thy wrath was unreproveable and just. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxvii. §17 His work is absolutely unreproveable.
Hence unreˈprovableness, -ably adv.
1634Sanderson Serm., Ad Mag. iii. (1681) II. 286 See to it..that you walk orderly and unreproveably your selves. 1680W. Clagett Disc., Answ. 24 The unreprovableness of the Spiritual man in assenting to the mysteries of the Gospel. |