reprobate

Borrowed from Latin reprobatus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), past participle of reprobare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/

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reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Jeremiah 6:30:

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

2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 696–7:

     Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate

3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

   The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

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

reprobate (plural reprobates)

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. An individual with low morals or principles.
   • c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana

     I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:

     [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.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

     "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50, on the Hammersmith & City line:

     West of here, it ascends to its viaduct where, 20 feet above the ground, the Westway seeks to emulate it; two scruffy reprobates shouldering their way through a not very pretty streetscape; the one a railway built by corporate buccaneers, the other a road constructed as part of a discredited plan to girdle London with motorways.

• depraved

Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/

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reprobate (third-person singular simple present reprobates, present participle reprobating, simple past and past participle reprobated)

1. To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, page 274:

     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.

• perborate

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.proˈbaː.te/, [rɛprɔˈbäːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.proˈba.te/, [reproˈbäːt̪e]

reprobāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reprobō