单词 | unrebukable |
释义 | unrebukableadj. Not capable of being rebuked. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > absence of moral flaw > [adjective] > above reproach unreprovablea1382 irreprehensiblec1384 irreprevablec1440 irreprovable?1504 unrebukable1530 unblameable?1537 unreproachable1578 unaccusable1582 irreproachable1634 unimpeachable1785 uncensurable1821 sanctorum1824 Simon Pure1835 1530 W. Tyndale Prol. Philippians in Wks. (1572) 52/1 He him selfe had liued in such false righteousnes, and holinesse Vnrebukeable. 1537 Bible (Matthew's) 1 Tim. vi. 14 That thou..be without spotte & vnrebukeable [Gk. ἀνεπίλημπτον]. c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 80 There were those that..were vnrebukeable. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 173 Plinie to Traian giues testimonie of Christians inoffensiue life; except in matter of their Superstition (as he calls it) they were vnrebukeable. 1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. 465 Justitiaries, and such as were unrebukeable in their lives. 1762 Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser 27 Aug. We imagine it must give the utmost pleasure to every lover of British navigation to see an expedient near brought to perfection by the intense labour and unrebukeable perseverance of a fellow-subject. 1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) clxi. 196 Not unrebukable am I, Not spotless Thy command have kept. 1932 Cairns (Queensland) Post 15 Oct. 15/2 The unrebukable current of humanity sweeps on. 2005 S. Cavell Philos. Day after Tomorrow iii. 67 The universal voice achieved in the moral law imposes demands that are unrebukable, even if evadable. Derivatives unreˈbukably adv. in an unrebukable manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adverb] allowablyc1443 acceptably1479 admirably1570 to admiration1591 admiredly1598 acceptedly1600 unrebukably1609 unexceptionably1662 1609 T. Cooper Churches Deliv. 100 You haue heard before that he liued vnrebukeably: but what instance haue we to giue euidence thereof. 1732 S. Browne Def. Relig. Nature iii. §2. 414 To keep the commandment of God unrebukeably. 1840 Friend No. 50. 398/1 He was enabled to walk blamelessly and unrebukeably before them. 2001 P. Watts Maelstrom (2002) 305 Burton, unrebukably occupied with his own duties, nonetheless seemed to have an ear cocked in Lubin's direction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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