respectability

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being respectable. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  2. The class of respectable people. uncountable,usually

词形变化

respectabilities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
disrespectability respectability politics semirespectability unrespectability

词源

Etymology tree
English respect
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English respectability
From respect + -ability.
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