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rehabilitable en · ADJ

Etymology

From rehabilitate + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be rehabilitated
   • Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment? 2011, Michael Meltsner, Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment:
   • The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness. 2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture and Civilization: Volume 2: Beyond Positivism and Historicism:

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