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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reprobate
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a nasty old reprobate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, even a hardened reprobate like myself must have some standards to adhere to.
▪ When fighting the good fight against such a reprobate there is no need for critics to resort to dishonesty and excess.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reprobate

Reprobate \Rep"ro*bate\ (-b?t), a. [L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove.]

  1. 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.
    --Jer. vi. 30.

  2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.

    And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate.
    --Milton.

  3. Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. ``Reprobate desire.''
    --Shak.

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

Reprobate

Reprobate \Rep"ro*bate\, n. One morally abandoned and lost.

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
--Sir W. Raleigh.

Reprobate

Reprobate \Rep"ro*bate\ (-b?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating.]

  1. 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.
    --Ayliffe.

    Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reprobate

early 15c., "rejected as worthless," from Late Latin reprobatus, past participle of reprobare "disapprove, reject, condemn," from Latin re- "opposite of, reversal of previous condition" (see re-) + probare "prove to be worthy" (see probate (n.)). Earliest form of the word in English was a verb, meaning "to disapprove" (early 15c.).

reprobate

1540s, "one rejected by God," from reprobate (adj.). Sense of "abandoned or unprincipled person" is from 1590s.

Wiktionary
reprobate

Etymology 1

  1. 1 (context rare English) rejected; cast off as worthless. 2 Rejected by God; damned, sinful. 3 immoral, having no religious or principled character. n. 1 One rejected by God; a sinful person. 2 An individual with low morals or principles. Etymology 2

    v

  2. 1 To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn. 2 Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss. 3 To refuse, set aside.

WordNet
reprobate
  1. adj. marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, immoral, perverse, perverted]

  2. n. a person without moral scruples [syn: miscreant]

  3. v. reject (documents) as invalid [ant: approbate]

  4. abandon to eternal damnation; "God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"

  5. express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, decry, objurgate, excoriate]

Wikipedia
Reprobate

Usage examples of "reprobate".

Having heard previously sundry menaces, which had been made by these preposterous and incarnadine individuals of hell, now on trial in prospect of condign punishment, fulminated against the longer continuance of my corporeal salubrity, for no better reason than that I reprobated their criminal orgies, and not wishing my reflections to be disturbed, I hurried my steps with a gradual accelerated motion.

I hope you will enjoy this trip through the darker side of London life in the company of Scottish whores, plumed Huns, reprobate Sergeants, Irish apothecaries, transvestite spies .

Unfortunately Janko had not told him what reprobates the two older sons were, and the older brothers themselves had given their father to understand that it was really they who had found the Magic Grape-Vine and rescued the Golden Maiden.

These Genii, according to our belief and hope, are not altogether reprobate, but are still in the way of probation, and may hereafter be punished or rewarded.

Sir Walter Scott reprobates, amusing himself with a volume of old Reports.

As the representative of the Western church, Pope Martin and his Lateran synod anathematized the perfidious and guilty silence of the Greeks: one hundred and five bishops of Italy, for the most part the subjects of Constans, presumed to reprobate his wicked type, and the impious ecthesis of his grandfather.

Everyone knew the story of how Questor had used the magic to change Abernathy from a man into a dog to protect him from the old King's spiteful son some years earlier, when that reprobate was in one of his more hateful moods, and then had been unable to change him back again.

He seems to be a thoroughly disgusting young reprobate, who suffers from a thoroughly disgusting degenerative disease.

And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

Nothing disgusts him physically or morally: he embraces Marat,[61] fraternizes with drunkards, congratulates the Septembriseurs, retorts in blackguard terms to the insults of prostitutes, treats reprobates, thieves and jail-birds as equals, - Carra, Westermann, Huguenin, Rossignol and the confirmed scoundrels whom he sends into the departments after the 2nd of September.

But even the reprobate Jews hold Malachi, Haggai, Zechariah, and Ezra as the last received into canonical authority.

Whence we conclude that it was not the gods, who are all good and highly exalted, that Plato deprived of the pleasure of theatric plays, by reprobating and prohibiting the fictions of the poets, but the demons.

Knocked two of the recreants down, and already was prepared to seize Esther in his arms, make a wild dash for the door, and run with her, whither only God knew, when Rateau, that awful consumptive reprobate, crept slyly up behind him and dealt him a swift and heavy blow on the skull with his weighted stick.

How, then, can the power of giving eternal life be attributed to any of those gods whose own images and sacred rites convict them of being most like to the fabulous gods, which are most openly reprobated, in forms, ages, sex, characteristics marriages, generations, rites.

Why did such an idea occur to her even enough to be reprobated and forbidden?