respectability

== Anglais == === Étymologie === Dérivé de respectable, avec le suffixe -ity. === Nom commun === 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) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) === Prononciation === New Jersey (États-Unis) : écouter « respectability [Prononciation ?] »