What does "reprobate" mean?
Reprobate: 2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. "Reprobate desire." Shak. See Abandoned.
- 3.One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh.
- 4.To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; 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. Ayliffe. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay.
- 5.To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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