unimpeachableadj.
/ˌʌnɪmˈpiːtʃəbl/, U.S. /ˌənᵻmˈpitʃəb(ə)l/ (un- prefix1 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > absence of moral flaw > [adjective] > above reproach
unreprovablea1382
irreprehensiblec1384
irreprevablec1440
irreprovable?1504
unrebukable1530
unblameable?1537
unreproachable1578
unaccusable1582
irreproachable1634
unimpeachable1785
uncensurable1821
sanctorum1824
Simon Pure1835
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adjective] > that cannot be impeached or blamed
irreprehendable1598
unimpeachable1785
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 676 Merchants, unimpeachable of sin Against the charities of domestic life.
1812 Burke's Speech Act of Uniformity 1772 in Wks. V. 323 The unimpeachable integrity and piety of many of the promoters of this petition.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 189 He could..take Harry's dinner to the same place with unimpeachable honesty.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 Seeing what time it is by the unimpeachable chronometer.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic xii. 392 The testimony of one unimpeachable witness.
Derivatives
unimˈpeachableness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > absence of moral flaw > [noun]
integrity1561
unblamableness1638
unreprovableness1659
impeccableness1696
irreproach1793
unimpeachableness1817
irreproachableness1828
unimpeachability1830
irreproachability1833
1817 W. Godwin Mandeville III. 188 The insinuations they threw out against the unimpeachableness of his motives.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iv. 99 Mrs Holt was not given to tears; she was much sustained by conscious unimpeachableness.
unimˈpeachably adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > absence of moral flaw > [adverb] > in a manner above reproach
unreprovably1535
unblameably1539
irreprovably1599
irreprehensibly1611
irreproachably1705
unimpeachably1821
1821 C. Lamb Confess. Delamore in Wks. (1908) I. 266 For more than five centuries, the current of our blood hath flowed unimpeachably.
1883 Manch. Examiner 22 Dec. 5 The jury were aided by a luminous and unimpeachably fair summing up.
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adj.1785