reprobate
noun
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L326663 on Wikidata ↗verb
- condemn
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ / /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/
adj
Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
- Rejected; cast off as worthless.
“Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.”
- Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
- Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
“The reprobate criminal sneered at me.”
“And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.”
noun
Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
- One rejected by God; a sinful person.
“And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel.”
- A person with low morals or principles.
“I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.”
“[T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.”
verb
Etymology: First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove.
- To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
“Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...”
- Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
- To refuse, set aside.