Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deserving of rebuke or reprehension.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible.

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  • adjective Deserving a rebuke; shameful.

Etymologies

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rebuke +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Spirit of God could speak as freely by the lips of the wind-swayed, reed-like, rebukable Peter, or of the Thomas who could believe his own eyes, but neither the word of his brethren, nor the nature of his Master, as by the lips of Him who was blind and deaf to everything but the will of him that sent him.

    Unspoken Sermons Series One 1824-1905 1867

  • For surely not the most idolatrous of our Bible-worshipping brothers and sisters will venture to assert that the Spirit of God could speak as freely by the lips of the wind-swayed, reed-like, rebukable Peter, or of the Thomas who could believe his own eyes, but neither the word of his brethren, nor the nature of his Master, as by the lips of Him who was blind and deaf to everything but the will of him that sent him.

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

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