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reprobate
/ˈɹɛpɹɔbeɪt/
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What does reprobate mean?
adjective
- Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
- Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
noun
- One rejected by God; a sinful person.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A person with low morals or principles.
verb
- To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
- Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
- To refuse, set aside.
adjective
- (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɛpɹɔbeɪt/
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Nor would they harbor, so I stood assured, A godless parricide, a reprobate Convicted of incestuous marriage ties.
The example of most of the States in their local constitutions encourages us to reprobate the idea.
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Mark what Rome answers, “Judas was a reprobate. His motives were perverse, therefore his works were hypocritical and no good.”
And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.
Elizabeth-Jane heard him say, “Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody’s hand!”