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单词 premiable
释义

premiableadj.

Brit. /ˈpriːmɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈprimiəb(ə)l/
Forms: late Middle English premyabyll, 1500s (Scottish)–1600s 1900s– premiable.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin premiabilis.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin premiabilis worthy of reward (1300, 1344, c1440 in British sources) < classical Latin praemiārī (see premiate v.) + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Middle French premiable acceptable, worthy of consideration (1531).
rare.
Deserving of reward.Apparently not recorded between the 16th and 19th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > merit > [adjective]
meedful1357
meritoryc1390
meritable?1400
premiablec1475
meritoriousa1513
meriting1605
meritful1660
c1475 Mankind (1969) 868 All þe wertu in þe word, yf ȝe myght comprehend, Your merytys were not premyabyll to þe blys abowe.
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 53 Thar sal comper befor the diuinite and humanite of Ihesu all creatur premiable and punyble.
1999 New Republic (Nexis) 3 May As predictable as Philip Johnson's inaugural Pritzker [Architecture Prize] was the selection of the supremely premiable I.M. Pei in 1983.

Derivatives

premiability n. Obsolete rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > merit > [noun]
earningOE
meritc1230
meeda1387
ablenessa1425
meedfulness1530
meriting1549
desert1563
deservednessa1628
deservingness1631
meritoriousness1639
premiability1675
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. xii. 271 What word can you find? Premiability and Rewardableness are long and unhandsome, and I remember no other, without using many words.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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