rehabilitable
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rehabilitate + -able.
Adjective
[edit]rehabilitable (comparative more rehabilitable, superlative most rehabilitable)
- Able to be rehabilitated
- 2011, Michael Meltsner, Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment[1]:
- Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?
- 2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism[2]:
- The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.