respectability
Anglais
Étymologie
- De respectable avec le suffixe -ity.
Nom commun
| Singulier | Pluriel |
|---|---|
| respectability \Prononciation ?\ |
respectabilities \Prononciation ?\ |
respectability \Prononciation ?\
- Respectabilité.
- 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. — (Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, 1893)
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