1382. Wyclif, Tobit x. 13. Monestende hir … to gouerne the hous, to ȝiue hirself vnreprefable.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 691, Cleopatra. Vnreprouable on to myn wyfhod ay, The same wolde I fele, lyf or deth.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 227. In life and conuersacion vnreprouable.
1581. J. Bell, Hardon’s Answ. Osor., 76 b. Whose wordes and deedes we may accoumpt without exception unreproveable.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 135. She was … of life vnreproueable.
1635. Pagitt, Christianogr., I. i. 4. Historiographers, and other unreproveable Authors.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 302, ¶ 14. Ye guardian Angels,… lead her gently hence innocent and unreprovable to a better Place.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, IX. 650. Thy wrath was unreproveable and just.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. xxvii. § 17. His work is absolutely unreproveable.
Hence Unreprovableness, -ably adv.
1634. Sanderson, Serm., Ad Mag., iii. (1691), II. 286. See to it … that you walk orderly and unreproveably your selves.
1680. W. Clagett, Disc., Answ., 24. The unreprovableness of the Spiritual man in assenting to the mysteries of the Gospel.
