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reprobation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reprobation \Rep`ro*ba"tion\ (-b?`sh?n), n. [F. r['e]probation, or L. reprobatio.]
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The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.
The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.
--Jeffrey.Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.
--Dryden. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Late Latin reprobationem (nominative reprobatio), noun of action from past participle stem of reprobare (see reprobate (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of reprobate; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. 2 (context theology English) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment; damnation.
WordNet
n. rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in hell
severe disapproval
Wikipedia
Reprobation, in Christian theology, is a corollary to the Calvinistic or broadly Augustinian doctrine of unconditional election which teaches that some of mankind (the elect) are predestined by God for salvation, and the remainder, the reprobate, are left bound to their fallen sin nature to be condemned to damnation in the Lake of fire. Similarly, when a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience, it is considered as a sign of reprobation.
The English word, reprobate, is from the Latin root probare (English: prove, test), and thus derived from the Latin, reprobatus (reproved, condemned), the opposite of approbatus (commended, approved).
Usage examples of "reprobation".
Pelagius taught that salvation or reprobation depended on personal deserts, and that the Divine election was merely through prescience of merits.
Among the lower classes wife and woman beating is by no means uncommon, nor is such an assault regarded with much more reprobation than an attack upon a man.
This is one honorable instance, out of not a few, of personal respect and kindness shown to members of the Roman clergy and the Jesuit society by men who held these organizations in the severest reprobation.
Alms to so eminent a religious house in its persecution and need provided an infallible means of acquiring merit, and there must be many in so large a town willing to pay a modest price to buy off reprobation for minor backslidings.
She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval.
However, exaggerated as these may be, I am not altogether certain that they will not prove a wholesome and needful antidote in this feministic age, when the sexes seem confounded, and it appear to be the chief object of many females to ape the man, an indecorum by which they not only divest themselves of such charm as they might boast, but lay themselves open to the sternest reprobation in the name of sanity and common-sense.
Therefore I held back, feeling little concern other than that of reprobation, while the others pressed about the jar and sniffed greedily at the con-tents.
Such laws are interferences of the State to prohibit a mischievous act-an act injurious to others, which ought to be a subject of reprobation, and social stigma, even when it is not deemed expedient to superadd legal punishment.
Then, passing on to the doctrine of the sacraments, he was going to treat at large on the power of absolution and reprobation, of the means of purging all sins by a little water and a few words, when, uttering the words indulgence, power of the pope, sufficient grace, and efficacious grace, he was interrupted by a thousand cries.