rehabilitable

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English

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Etymology

From rehabilitate +‎ -able.

Adjective

rehabilitable (comparative more rehabilitable, superlative most rehabilitable)

  1. Able to be rehabilitated
    • 2011, Michael Meltsner, Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment:
      Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?
    • 2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism:
      The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.