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Reprovable vs Censurable - What's the difference?

reprovable | censurable | Synonyms |

Reprovable is a synonym of censurable.


As adjectives the difference between reprovable and censurable

is that reprovable is reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure while censurable is deserving of censure; blameworthy.

reprovable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff , title=The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village , chapter=9 , isbn=0415330459 , page=429 , passage=Feeling hungry, she wanted to ask for food (an unthinkable action in conscious behavior) and so knocked on the door, but when nobody answered she entered the house (again a reprovable action) and saw a bearded man sitting in the single room.}}

    Derived terms

    * reprovableness * reprovably

    censurable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 1648 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Miscellanea Spiritualia , url= http://ia700305.us.archive.org/3/items/miscellaneaspiri00mont/miscellaneaspiri00mont_bw.pdf , original= , chapter= Of Scurrility , section = 2 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 144 , passage= ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith , whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ... }}