Reprobate

/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ · adjective

Meaning

(rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
4. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
5. A person with low morals or principles.
6. To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
7. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
8. To refuse, set aside.

Example Sentences

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

The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

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

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.

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.

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• more reprobate
• most reprobate
• reprobates
• reprobating
• reprobated

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