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reprovable, a. ? Obs.|rɪˈpruːvəb(ə)l|
Forms: α. 4–6 reprouable, (4–5 -abil), 6 reproueable, (6–8 -veable), 6–7 reprooueable, 4– reprovable. β. 4–5 repreuable, 5 -v(e)able, repreev-, reprefable, 6 repryuable.
[f. as reprove v. + -able, after med.L. reprobābilis (Du Cange): cf. F. réprouvable (14th c., Oresme).]
Deserving of reproof or censure; blameworthy, reprehensible.
In common use (in the α-forms) from c 1380 to 1650.
αa1340Hampole Psalter xxxviii. 2, I sett kepynge til my mouth..þat nane reprouabil word withpassid me. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 292 Also seynt poul iugiþ of petris synne, and aȝen-stoode him for he was reprouable. a1471Fortescue Wks. (1869) 490, I se the naughty and reprovable people helped with richesses. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxvi. (Arb.) 65 The ancient guise in old times vsed at weddings (in my simple opinion) nothing reproueable. 1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. i. §5. 101 Thy faith was not only little but reprovable. 1746Wesley Princ. Methodist 3 Those..who may be hinder'd, by their Prejudice in my Favour,..from observing what is reproveable.
β1382Wyclif Prov. xxv. 10 The whiche kepe thou to thee, lest thou be maad repreuable. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 66 In þayre secretz and writynges no fals þynge ne repreuable ys founden. c1460Sir R. Ros La Belle Dame 512 Yit atte lest y am nat repreuable. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 1436 That I shall suffer none impechment..nor losse repryuable.
Hence † reˈprovableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727); † reˈprovably adv.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. x. 50 Wherfore folewith that he vnresonabili and reprouabili askith. |