blameable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English blameable, equivalent to blame + -able.
Adjective[edit]
blameable (comparative more blameable, superlative most blameable)
- Alternative spelling of blamable
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 332:
- I say, I have never much distinguished thee, not because I did not see that in thee which I might well have praised, but because I saw something blameable, which such praises might have made worse.
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Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blameable
- blameworthy, at fault
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “blāmāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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