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irreprovable, a.|ɪrɪˈpruːvəb(ə)l|
[ir-2.]
1. Not reprovable or blameable; undeserving of reproof; blameless, irreproachable. Now rare.
1504Lady Margaret tr. De Imitatione iv. v. 268 Shewe thy selfe irreprouable and withoute defaute. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 95 The Turk in all his attempts against Hungerland hath used irreprovable judgement. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 89 Divines of irreproveable life. 1755Young Centaur ii. Wks. 1757 IV. 144 An indulgent Providence has abundantly provided us with irreproveable pleasures. 1838W. B. Whitmarsh Fam. Prayers 168 That all the..actions..may be pure, holy, and irreproveable in thy sight.
†2. That cannot be disproved or confuted; irrefutable. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 453 b, Where be those irreproveable Testimonyes, and undeceivable examples, whereupon you crake so lustely? 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 11 In some Christian Churches, wherein is presumed an irreproveable truth.
Hence irreˈprovableness.
1775in Ash. 1846in Worcester; and in mod. Dicts. |