Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being irreproachable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
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- noun The quality or state of being
irreproachable ;integrity ;innocence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of those mentioned by Mr Goodwin, there is not any one, from first to last, but restrained the word to the reproachableness or irreproachableness of the apostle in the discharge of the work of the ministry; the sense of it which we also insist upon.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The irreproachableness and blamelessness of searching for bark is an eleventh.
The Story of Sumedha. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 31). 1909
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One day I received a letter, evidently written in great consternation, from an elderly spinster of singularly aristocratic connections and an irreproachableness of life which was almost painful.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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It was not that she had, in the conventional sense, any doubt of Mrs. Hatch's irreproachableness.
House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899
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The girl, perceiving that she was the object of their notice, turned round, and in an attitude of conscious irreproachableness, retorted with the challenge in Creole French, "Qui entêté ça?"
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We may be assured however that character derives much of its luster and fortunes much or their elevation from the untainted purity and irreproachableness of youth.
Valedictory Speech of Peter King Rounsaville, June 5, 1844 1844
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