Definitions for respectabilities

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respectabilities re·spect·a·bil·i·ty

Spelling: [ri-spek-tuh-bil-i-tee]

IPA: /rɪˌspɛk təˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Respectabilities is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 2734 anagrams from letters in respectabilities (abceeeiiilprsstt).

Definitions for respectabilities

noun

1. the state or quality of being respectable.
2. respectable social standing, character, or reputation.
3. a respectable person or persons.
4. respectabilities, things accepted as respectable.
5. the state or quality of being respectable.
6. respectable social standing, character, or reputation.
7. a respectable person or persons.
8. respectabilities, things accepted as respectable.

Origin of respectabilities

First recorded in 1775-85; respectable + -ity

Examples for respectabilities

A sort of New England respectability and quietness hung over it.

Somehow, a bold and eccentric encampment gave heart to progressives at all levels of respectability.

respectability awaits even iconoclasts if they stick around long enough.

Of course, there was no such search for him as is made for the man of respectability and position.

Or, to put this another way, the person who puts her hope in respectability is like the foolish man who built his house on sand.

Officialdom is their divinity and respectability their key to life.

Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.

She was in fact a satirist of society, and of its notions of respectability.

And after the striking of the blow, this respectability was continued in immobility and silence.

Queen Victoria was the mother of the new era of respectability, but her father Edward, Duke of Kent, had a mistress for 25 years.

Or, to put this another way, the person who puts her hope in respectability is like the foolish man who built his house on sand.

Officialdom is their divinity and respectability their key to life.

A sort of New England respectability and quietness hung over it.

Queen Victoria was the mother of the new era of respectability, but her father Edward, Duke of Kent, had a mistress for 25 years.

respectability awaits even iconoclasts if they stick around long enough.

Of course, there was no such search for him as is made for the man of respectability and position.

Somehow, a bold and eccentric encampment gave heart to progressives at all levels of respectability.

And after the striking of the blow, this respectability was continued in immobility and silence.

She was in fact a satirist of society, and of its notions of respectability.

Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.