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reprovable

reprovable adjective: reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure.

Adjective

reprovable (comparative more reprovable, superlative most reprovable)

  1. reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
    • Some great examples we find in story , and their names are remembered in honour ; but we can make no judgment of them , but that their zeal was reprovable for its intemperance , though it had excellency in the matter of the passion1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC
    • Feeling hungry, she wanted to ask for food (an unthinkable action in conscious behavior) and so knocked on the door, but when nobody answered she entered the house (again a reprovable action) and saw a bearded man sitting in the single room.2004, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, chapter 9, in The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village, →ISBN, page 429

Forms of reprovable

comparativemore reprovable
superlativemost reprovable

Origin of reprovable

From reprove + -able? Compare French réprouvable.

Words formed from reprovable

Questions about reprovable

What does reprovable mean?
Reprovable means reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure.
What part of speech is reprovable?
Reprovable is an adjective.

Words near reprovable in the dictionary

  1. reprotoxicant
  2. reprotoxicants
  3. reprotoxicity
  4. reprotoxicological
  5. reprotoxicology
  6. reprovable
  7. reprovably
  8. reproval
  9. reprovals
  10. reprove
  11. reproveable

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