reprovable

[ri-proo-vuh-buhl]

adjective

1. deserving of reproof.

Other Word Forms

• reprovableness noun
• unreprovable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of reprovable¹

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French, equivalent to reprov ( er ) to reprove + -able -able

Example Sentences

The widespread reaction of aversion on the part of the governments and of public opinion in the very nations in which occurred these reprovable acts against the serene and courageous person of the Vice President constitutes a proof that such demonstrations proceeded from a factious minority.

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If the manner of contending be observed, our opposites will be found reprovable, not we.

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Howsoever, it cannot be denied, that such actions may be and are of a civil quo ad individuum,1203 or in respect of the circumstances, which show forth in them reprovable temerity, incogitancy, levity, and indecency.

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Similarly Milton has ‘unreproved’ for ‘not reprovable,’ ‘unvalued’ for ‘invaluable,’ etc.; and Shakespeare has ‘unavoided’ for ‘inevitable,’ ‘imagined’ for ‘imaginable,’ etc.

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Is not this a weighty reason? a reprovable custom, if painters did not gain by it.

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