unreprehendedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrɛprᵻˈhɛndᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˌrɛprəˈhɛndəd/ Not reprehended; uncensured, unrebuked.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > [adjective] > approved or accepted > not objected to or censured
blameless1377
unreprovedc1425
unrebukedc1475
unberisped1481
uncastigate1539
unreprehended1572
uncensured1574
unimproved1604
unreproached1616
uncontemned1623
unmurmureda1627
unrepined1626
unexcepted1631
unrejecteda1643
uncomplained1648
untwitted1651
uncastigated1657
unupbraided1682
unobjected1687
unjobed1732
uncriticized1751
unremonstrated1756
unanimadverted1816
unscolded1855
uncondemned1861
undecried1868
1572 J. Sadler tr. Vegetius Foure Bks. Martiall Policye ii. Prol. f. 12v Feare I not at your commaundemente to aduenture on a worke, when as that which was voluntarilye done, hath past vnreprehended [L. inpune].
1613 J. Stephens Cinthia's Revenge iii. ii. sig. Iv If your vn-reprehended sapience Thinke it a pollicy expedient, Il'e runne to exile, dye in banishment.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. v. §1 Some of the Patriarches lived unreprehended in Polygamie.
a1643 D. Digges Vnlawfulnesse Subj. Taking Armes against Soveraigne (1644) 154 His Majesty (forced to preserve himselfe by flying the City, that he might be free at least by absence, from the scornes and dangers of unreprehended, I will not say, encouraged tumults).
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 40 Unreprehended there, supine, you lie.
1813 Belfast Monthly Mag. 30 Apr. 335/2 This glaring irregularity is suffered to pass unreprehended by legislative enactment.
1918 E. L. White Unwilling Vestal 243 Their unreprehended departure.
1988 Classical Philol. 83 333 [A misreading] had passed unreprehended.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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