illaudable

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13
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18
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10

Definition of illaudable

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not laudable; unpraiseworthy.
    “A custome there is in most parts of Europe, to adorn Aqueducts, spouts and Cisternes with Lions heads; which though no illaudable ornament, is an Egyptian continuation, who practised the same under a symbolicall illation.”
    “And this generally, with the thoughtless, is the beginning and progress of that formidable invader, miscalled Love; a word very happily at hand, to help giddy creatures to talk with and look without confusion of face on, a man telling them a thousand lyes, and hopeing, perhaps by illaudable means, to attain an end not in itself illaudable, when duty and discretion are, the one the guide, the other the gentle restraint.”
    “[…] Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.”

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Etymology

From Late Latin illaudabilis.

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