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noun

Reprobate n. One morally abandoned and lost. "I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king."

verb

Reprobate v. t. (past & past part. reprobated; pres. part. reprobating)

To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. "Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears." "Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other."

To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

Synonyms: To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.

adjective

Reprobate adj.

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. (Obs.) "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them."

Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. "And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate."

Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. "Reprobate desire."

Synonyms: Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile. See Abandoned.

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Etymology of 'Reprobate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reprobate" Quotes from Famous Books

... He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart; He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor; In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not; He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall ...

— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott

... at a moment like the present—when every hope of my life is fixed upon uniting myself to you, dear Eleanor, by ties as near as my own to that parent. But the interview which I have just had with Lady Rookwood—bitter and heart-breaking as it has been—compels me to reprobate her conduct in the strongest terms, as harsh, unjust, and dishonorable; and if I could wholly throw off the son, as she avows she has thrown off the mother, I should unhesitatingly pronounce it as ...

— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth

... in the Bodies of such Good Men, do so harbour the Devil that they have this woful motion every day thence made unto them; You must Kill your self! you must! you must! But it is rarely any other than a Saul, an Abimelek, an Achitophel, or a Judas; rarely any other, than a very Reprobate, whom the Devil can drive, while the man is Compos Mentis, to Consummate such a Villany. Yea, no Child of God, in his Right Senses can go so far in this impiety, as to be left without all Time and Room for true Repentance ...

— The Wonders of the Invisible World • Cotton Mather

... CALLIDEMUS. So, you young reprobate! You must be a man of wit, forsooth, and a man of quality! You must spend as if you were as rich as Nicias, and prate as if you were as wise as Pericles! You must dangle after sophists and pretty women! And I must pay for all! I must sup ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Contibutions to Knight's Quarterly Magazine] • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Patty roguishly, "that such a mild scolding as that is going to do a hardened reprobate like ...

— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells

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