rewardable

English

Etymology

reward +‎ -able

Adjective

rewardable (comparative more rewardable, superlative most rewardable)

1. Worthy of reward.
2. Capable of being rewarded.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     To which may be added this advantage, that the services of churchmen are rewardable upon the church's stock: no need to disimprove the royal banks to pay thanks to bishops.

Related terms

• rewardableness
• rewardably

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rewardable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)