Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being rewarded; worthy of recompense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Worthy of reward.

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  • adjective Worthy of reward.

Etymologies

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reward +‎ -able

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Examples

  • We may then accept people who promote hatred in the name of their religion, who find it acceptable, and even believe they will go to heaven for crashing a plane into a big building that had a little two-year old girl aboard, or that it's a "rewardable" Jihad activity to slit a young woman's throat in front of such a child.

    January 2009 2009

  • This view, however, rests on a misunderstanding, according to Bolzano, since for him “the moral goodness of an action (i.e., its claim to being rewardable) is always a matter of whether the action has been undertaken with a view to agreeing with the law” (RW I, 240).

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • Faith has a mixture of the Will that it may be rewardable, for who will thank us for giving our Assent where it was impossible to withhold it?

    Mary Astell Sowaal, Alice 2008

  • That probably gave him and others the idea that such language was not only okay but rewardable.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of OpEdNews 2008

  • Blame Madonna, who had nowhere to go but Skanktown and the media who made it rewardable.

    Camille Paglia on... it's not my word.... "crotchgate." Ann Althouse 2006

  • No act of the creature whereunto it is necessitated, or which it cannot possibly decline or but do, is, by any law of God or rule of justice, rewardable.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • The end of gospel obedience is the glory of God as a rewarder according to bounty, free grace, and mercy; under which consideration, neither needs the obedience rewardable to be commensurate to the reward, nor is the reward procured by that obedience.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • No more was required unto the consummation of that state but what was given us in our creation, enabling us unto rewardable obedience.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • God judged it, and declared it to be a righteous, rewardable act.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • For every thing that he has appointed unto any end, moral or spiritual, has, by virtue of that appointment, either a symbolical instructive efficacy, or an active efficiency, or a rewardable condecency, with respect unto that end.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

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