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English
Etymology
From Middle English blameable, equivalent to blame + -able.
Adjective
blameable (comparative more blameable, superlative most blameable)
- Alternative spelling of blamable
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 332:I say, I have never much distinguished thee, not because I did not see that in thee which I might well have praised, but because I saw something blameable, which such praises might have made worse.
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology
From blamen + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌblaːm(ə)ˈaːbəl/, /-aːblə/
Adjective
blameable
- blameworthy, at fault
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