irreproachable

English

Etymology

First attested in 1630. Borrowed from French irréprochable, from Middle French inreprochable. See also ir- +‎ reproachable.

Adjective

irreproachable (not comparable)

1. Free from blame, not open to reproach or criticism; blameless.
   • 1793, T[homas] Wilson, “Priest”, in An Archæological Dictionary; or, Classical Antiquities of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, Alphabetically Arranged: [...], 2nd edition, London: Printed for D. Ogilvy [et al.], →OCLC, column 1:

     At Athens the Prieſts and Prieſteſſes were drawn by lot, from the men and virgins of diſtinguiſhed family and irreproachable life. Maimed or deformed perſons were not admitted, and purity and chaſtity were ſo particularly required, that the Prieſts frequently uſed means to emaſculate themselves.

   • 1851, [Rosina] Bulwer Lytton, chapter IV, in Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. A Tale of Real Life., volume III, London: W[illiam] Shoberl, […], pages 140–141:

     “Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found a husband the most docile, irreproachable, and obedient of created beings, and that all heiresses apparent to thrones will do the same; […]”

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:flawless

Derived terms

• irreproachableness
• irreproachably

Translations

free from blame

• Bulgarian: безукорен (bg) (bezukoren)
• Esperanto: senmanka
• French: irréprochable (fr)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌸𐍃 (ungafairinōþs)
• Greek: άμεμπτος (el) (ámemptos)
• Hungarian: feddhetetlen (hu)
• Italian: irreprensibile (it)
• Luxembourgish: irreprochabel
• Manx: gyn cron, neuchyndagh, neuoltooanagh
• Norwegian: daddelfri

  Bokmål: uklanderlig

• Polish: nienaganny (pl), nieskazitelny (pl), nieposzlakowany (pl)
• Portuguese: irreprochável (pt)
• Romanian: ireproșabil (ro) m or n
• Russian: безукори́зненный (ru) (bezukoríznennyj)

References

• “irreproachable”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irreproachable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “irreproachable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “irreproachable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.