The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reprobate \Rep"ro*bate\ (-b?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating.]
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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.
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To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Syn: To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reprobate)
Usage examples of "reprobated".
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?
She reprobated her brother's folly in being drawn on by a woman whom he had never cared for, to do what must lose him the woman he adored.
Even in ancient times, when the Anglican church had dominated the early colony, it had been simultaneously reprobated as a sink of sin and tolerated as a safe containment thereof.
If, for example, a man, through intemperance or extravagance, becomes unable to pay his debts, or, having undertaken the moral responsibility of a family, becomes from the same cause incapable of supporting or educating them, he is deservedly reprobated, and might be justly punished.