reprobate

UK /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ US /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
adj 3verb 3noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

Rejected; cast off as worthless.

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

2

Rejected by God; damned, sinful.

3

Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

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

noun

1

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.

2

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

1

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;...

2

Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.

3

To refuse, set aside.

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