reprobate

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Scrabble points
13
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15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
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/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ · /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/

Definition of reprobate

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (rare)Rejected; cast off as worthless.
    “Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.”
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adj

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

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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Etymology

First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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