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reprobacy

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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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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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