| 单词 | reprehensibility |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrepreˌhensiˈbility repreˌhensiˈbility n. [compare post-classical Latin reprehensibilitas (c1200 in a British source)] †(a) reprehension, reproof (obsolete rare); (b) the quality or fact of being reprehensible. ΚΠ 1782 J. Gambier Narr. Facts Conduct 30 Humbly beseeching the strictest investigation into my conduct, if any part of it seemed to give the least cause of displeasure or reprehensibility. 1786 Green-room Mirror 62 This reprehensibility can only be entituled a private fault, which might proceed from the prejudice of education. 1806 C. Cappe in C. Richardson Poems Pref. p. x The editor cannot pass over these facts, without animadverting on the great reprehensibility of this and of similar conduct in the masters and mistresses of families. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 29 414 It is the senseless extravagance of the conduct of this person, rather than the moral reprehensibility of it, that outrages the speaker. 1997 Akron (Ohio) Beacon Jrnl. (Nexis) 6 Feb. a1 In awarding punitive damages, a California jury must first consider the reprehensibility of the defendant's action, then seek to come up with an amount that fits the crime. < as lemmas |
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