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reproachable, a. Now rare.|rɪˈprəʊtʃəb(ə)l|
[a. F. reprochable (13th c.), or f. prec. + -able.]
1. a. Deserving of, or liable to, reproach; censurable.
1531Elyot Gov. i. iv, Suche companions and playfelowes, whiche shal nat do in his presence any reprocheable acte. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 216 That [which] this kyng iudged contrarie to all reason and reprocheable.., the same nowe..is accoumpted an high pointe & royall thing. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 191 Silence (a thing more often praise-worthy than reprochable). 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Religion (1850) I. 166 Nor, in the mean time, is our ignorance reprochable. 1710Steele Tatler No. 199 ⁋4 This has given Way to such unreasonable Gallantries, that a Man is hardly reproachable that deceives an innocent Woman, tho' she has never so much Merit, if she is below him in Fortune. 1779G. Keate Sketches fr. Nat. (ed. 2) I. 58 A brother, whose conduct towards her had been in the highest degree reproachable. 1823Ann. Reg. 158 It was reproachable with fewer excesses. [1892Zangwill Bow Mystery 56 His linen was reproachable, his dingy boots were down at heel.] 1972Sunday Tel. 30 Apr. 14/2 It is here that ‘The Green Flag’ is reproachable. The history of a rebellion is incomplete if it gives hardly a clue as to the nature and attitudes of the power at which the rebellion was directed.
†b. Involving reproach to one. Obs. rare.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. 391, I have now no other pretention, but to follow such [studies] as can be no way reproachable unto me. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 205 A different way, less shocking and less reproachable to our nature, might..answer the end as well.
†2. Conveying or implying reproach; reproachful. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. ii, He also prohibited that any thinge shuld be radde or spoken, reprocheable or blasphemous to god. 1576Tyde taryeth no man in Collier Illustr. E.E. Pop. Lit. xvi. 16 The preacher brake out with reprocheable talke, Saying that we cittizens were all to bad.
Hence reˈproachableness, -ably. rare—0.
1648Hexham, Lasterlicken, Reproachably, or Blameably. [1847–in Webster and later Dicts. ] 1727Bailey vol. II, Reproachableness, capableness, etc. of being reproached. [Hence in Jodrell, Webster (1847) and later Dicts.] |