irreprehensible, a. Now rare.
(ɪrɛprɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l)
[ad. late L. irreprehensibil-is, f. ir- (ir-2) + reprehens-, ppl. stem of reprehendĕre to reprehend: see -ible, and cf. F. irrépréhensible (14th c. in Hatz.–Darm.).]
Not reprehensible or blameworthy; not liable to blame or reproof; irreproachable.
| 1382 Wyclif 1 Tim. iii. 2 It bihoueth a byschop for to be irreprehensyble [gloss or withoute reproue], and the hose⁓bonde of oo wyf. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 305 Hys iugement which is in dede iust and irreprehensible but also incomprehensible. 1590 Swinburne Testaments 7 The definition remaineth irreprehensible. 1656 Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 266 A man as excellent for Learning, as for his plain-dealing, and sincerity of an irreprehensible life. 1702 Vanbrugh False Friend i. i. 25, I profess..a most perfect knowledge of men and manners. Yours, gracious sir,..are not irreprehensible. 1848 R. Turnbull Pulpit Orators France 87 You ought to have been strict and irreprehensible in your compliance with the dictates of reason. |
Hence irrepreˈhensibleness, irrepreˈhensibly adv.
| 1611 Cotgr., Irreprehensiblement, irreprehensibly, blamelesly, vnreprouably. 1656 Hobbes 6 Lessons iii. Wks. 1845 VII. 241 He defined the same proportion irreprehensibly. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Irreprehensibleness. |