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respectabilities

respectabilities is the plural of respectability.

Meaning of respectability

Noun

respectability (usually uncountable, plural respectabilities)

  1. (usually) The quality of being respectable.
    • Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which...1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  2. (usually) The class of respectable people.

Questions about respectabilities

What is respectabilities the plural of?
Respectabilities is the plural of respectability.

Words near respectabilities in the dictionary

  1. respect orders
  2. respectabilise
  3. respectabilised
  4. respectabilises
  5. respectabilising
  6. respectabilities
  7. respectability
  8. respectability politics
  9. respectabilize
  10. respectabilized
  11. respectabilizes

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