respectability
Etymology Pronunciation
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Etymology Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti/
respectability (uncountable)
- The quality of being respectable.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- The class of respectable people.
- French: respectabilité
- Italian: rispettabilità, perbenismo
- Portuguese: respeitabilidade
- Spanish: respetabilidad
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