Definitions for reprobate
ˈrɛp rəˌbeɪtrepro·bate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. reprobate, miscreantadjective

   a person without moral scruples

2. depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobateverb

   deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

   "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

3. reprobateverb

   reject (documents) as invalid

4. reprobateverb

   abandon to eternal damnation

   "God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"

5. condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriateverb

   express strong disapproval of

   "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. REPROBATEadjective

   Lost to virtue; lost to grace; abandoned.

   Etymology: reprobus, Lat.

   They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and to every good work reprobate. Tit. i. 16.

   Strength and art are easily outdone
   By spirits reprobate. John Milton.

   God forbid, that every single commission of a sin, though great for its kind, and withal acted against conscience, for its aggravation, should so far deprave the soul, and bring it to such a reprobate condition, as to take pleasure in other men’s sins. Robert South, Sermons.

2. Reprobatenoun

   A man lost to virtue; a wretch abandoned to wickedness.

   What if we omit
   This reprobate, till he were well inclin’d. William Shakespeare.

   I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traytor to the king, and the most unworthy man that ever lived. Ral.

   All the saints have profited by tribulations; and they that could not bear temptations, became reprobates. Taylor.

3. To Reprobateverb

   Etymology: reprobo, Lat.

   1. To disallow; to reject.

   Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. John Ayliffe.

   2. To abandon to wickedness and eternal destruction.

   What should make it necessary for him to repent and amend, who either without respect to any degree of amendment is supposed to be elected to eternal bliss, or without respect to sin, to be irreversibly reprobated. Henry Hammond.

   A reprobated hardness of heart does them the office of philosophy towards a contempt of death. Roger L'Estrange.

   3. To abandon to his sentence, without hope of pardon.

   Drive him out
   To reprobated exile round the world,
   A caitive, vagabond, abhorr’d, accurs’d. Thomas Southerne.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. reprobate

   Reprobation, in Christian theology, is a doctrine which teaches that a person can reject the gospel to a point where God in turn rejects them and curses their conscience. The English word reprobate is from the Latin root probare (English: prove, test), which gives the Latin participle reprobatus (reproved, condemned), the opposite of approbatus (commended, approved). The doctrine is found in many passages of scripture, such as Romans 1:20-28, 2 Corinthians 13:5-6, Proverbs 1:23-33, John 12:37-41, and Hebrews 6:4-8. In Christian doctrine, when a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience for particularly vile acts, it is considered a sign of reprobation. The doctrine does not stipulate that because of reprobates' wicked deeds God will not save them, but rather that God has effectively permanently withdrawn his offer of salvation by giving them over to a seared conscience, now capable of willingly committing certain sins not common among mankind.

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1. reprobate

   A reprobate is a person who is morally unprincipled or wicked, often beyond the possibility of redemption or improvement. The term can also be used as an adjective to describe such character or behavior. It originates from Christian theology, referring to a sinner who is not of the elect and is predestined to damnation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. Reprobateadjective

   not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected

2. Reprobateadjective

   abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved

3. Reprobateadjective

   of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct

4. Reprobatenoun

   one morally abandoned and lost

5. Reprobateverb

   to disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject

6. Reprobateverb

   to abandon to punishment without hope of pardon

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Reprobate

   rep′rō-bāt, adj. condemned: base: given over to sin: depraved: vile: (B.) that will not stand proof or trial: (Sterne) condemnatory.—n. an abandoned or profligate person: one lost to shame.—v.t. to disapprove: to censure: to disown.—ns. Rep′rōbācy, state of being a reprobate; Rep′robance (Shak.), reprobation; Rep′robāteness; Rep′robāter; Reprobā′tion, the act of reprobating: rejection: the act of abandoning to destruction: state of being so abandoned: the doctrine of the fore-ordination of the impenitent to eternal perdition: (mil.) disqualification to bear office; Reprobā′tioner, one who maintains the doctrine of reprobation by divine decree.—adj. Reprobā′tive, criminatory.—n. Rep′robātor (Scots law), an old form of action to prove a witness to be perjured or biassed.—adj. Rep′robātory, reprobative. [L. reprobatus, pa.p. of reprobāre, to reprove.]

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1. perborate

2. prorebate

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reprobate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of reprobate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of reprobate in a Sentence

1. Scott Applewhite -RRB- Levin:

   When it comes to Adam Schiff doctoring evidence, Adam Schiff is a lawyer and has a license in the state of California and maybe other places, rather than us just whining about this reprobate and unethical hack, let’s do something about it: Lawyers are not free to doctor evidence particularly when they are doctoring evidence for the purpose of putting people in prison.

2. Scott Applewhite -RRB- Levin:

   Rather than us just whining about this reprobate and unethical hack, let’s do something about it: Lawyers are not free to doctor evidence particularly when they are doctoring evidence for the purpose of putting people in prison.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=reprobate
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=reprobate
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprobate
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reprobate
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=reprobate