Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being reprehensible; blamableness; culpableness.
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Examples
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"That –" began Mrs. Arbuthnot, quite clear as to the reprehensibleness of such a point of view; but Mrs. Wilkins stopped her before she could finish.
The Enchanted April 1922
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It was better – she hardly noticed the reprehensibleness of her thought – than nothing.
The Enchanted April 1922
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It was plainly her meaning that to a general reprehensibleness, dulness was now super-added.
The Convert 1907
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It was plainly her meaning that to a general reprehensibleness, dulness was now superadded.
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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"That --" began Mrs. Arbuthnot, quite clear as to the reprehensibleness of such a point of view; but Mrs. Wilkins stopped her before she could finish.
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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It was better -- she hardly noticed the reprehensibleness of her thought -- than nothing.
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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