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Reprobate

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rep⋅ro⋅bate

  [rep-ruh-beyt] noun, adjective, verb, -bat⋅ed, -bat⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
2. a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
–adjective
3. morally depraved; unprincipled; bad.
4. rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
–verb (used with object)
5. to disapprove, condemn, or censure.
6. (of God) to reject (a person), as for sin; exclude from the number of the elect or from salvation.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME reprobaten < L reprobātus; ptp. of reprobāre to reprove

Related forms:
rep⋅ro⋅ba⋅cy  [rep-ruh-buh-see] , rep⋅ro⋅bate⋅ness, noun
rep⋅ro⋅bat⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. tramp, scoundrel, wastrel, miscreant, wretch, rascal, cad, rogue. 2. outcast, pariah. 3. wicked, sinful, evil, corrupt. 5. reprehend, blame, rebuke, reprove.
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rep·ro·bate   (rěp'rə-bāt')   
n.  

  1. A morally unprincipled person.

  2. One who is predestined to damnation.

adj.  

  1. Morally unprincipled; shameless.

  2. Rejected by God and without hope of salvation.

tr.v.   rep·ro·bat·ed, rep·ro·bat·ing, rep·ro·bates

  1. To disapprove of; condemn.

  2. To abandon to eternal damnation. Used of God.


[From Middle English, condemned, from Late Latin reprobātus, past participle of reprobāre, to reprove : Latin re-, opposite; see re- + Latin probāre, to approve; see prove.]
rep'ro·ba'tion n., rep'ro·ba'tive adj.
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Word Origin & History

reprobate  (adj.)
1545, "rejected as worthless," from L.L. reprobatus, pp. of reprobare "disapprove, reject, condemn," from L. re- "opposite of, reversal of previous condition" + probare "prove to be worthy" (see probate). The noun is recorded from 1545, "one rejected by God." Sense of "abandoned or unprincipled person" is from 1592. Earliest form of the word in Eng. was a verb, meaning "to disapprove" (1432).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Reprobate

that which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer. 6:30; Heb. 6:8; Gr. adokimos, "rejected"). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Cor. 13:5-7).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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