blameable

English

Etymology

From Middle English blameable, equivalent to blame +‎ -able.

Adjective

blameable (comparative more blameable, superlative most blameable)

1. 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

• blameableness
• blameably
• unblameable

 

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blamable

Etymology

From blamen +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌblaːm(ə)ˈaːbəl/, /-aːblə/

Adjective

blameable

1. blameworthy, at fault

Descendants

• English: blamable, blameable

References

• “blāmāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.