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illaudable

illaudable adjective: not laudable; unpraiseworthy.

Adjective

illaudable (comparative more illaudable, superlative most illaudable)

  1. Not laudable; unpraiseworthy.
    • A custome there is in most parts of Europe, to adorn Aqueducts, spouts and Cisternes with Lions heads; which though no illaudable ornament, is an Egyptian continuation, who practised the same under a symbolicall illation.1650, Thomas Browne, chapter V, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 5th book, pages 226-227
    • And this generally, with the thoughtless, is the beginning and progress of that formidable invader, miscalled Love; a word very happily at hand, to help giddy creatures to talk with and look without confusion of face on, a man telling them a thousand lyes, and hopeing, perhaps by illaudable means...1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Dublin, Volume 6, Letter 27, p. 163

Forms of illaudable

comparativemore illaudable
superlativemost illaudable

Origin of illaudable

From Late Latin illaudabilis.

Words formed from illaudable

Questions about illaudable

What does illaudable mean?
Illaudable means not laudable; unpraiseworthy.
What part of speech is illaudable?
Illaudable is an adjective.

Words near illaudable in the dictionary

  1. illative
  2. illative case
  3. illative cases
  4. illatively
  5. illatives
  6. illaudable
  7. illaudably
  8. illaudatory
  9. Illawarra
  10. Illawarra ash
  11. Illawarra flame tree

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