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reprobate en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/

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).

Meanings

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
   • Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:30:
2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
   • And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate. 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
   • The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

Forms

Deriveds

reprobateness

Synonyms

unseemly · effete · immoral · damned · unworthy · deuced · undutiful · corrupted · profligate · unethical · perverse · nought · unprincipled · goddamned · godforsaken · errant · hellbound · tormented · ungodly · immodest · unrighteous · lost · profligate · corrupt · goddamned · unjust · indecorous · improper · reprobate · iniquitous · unscrupulous · dissolute · dirty-handed · licentious · incontinent · wrong · depraved · questionable · iniquous · ever-damned · discarded · forcasten · castoff · reprobate · aberrant · perverted · ever-damned · unduteous · hellbound · obscene · licentious · dissolute · indecent · deityforsaken

Translations (80)

nl verwerpelijk (immoral) · gd daoidh (immoral) · fr réprouvé (rejected) · de ruchlos (immoral) · fr réprouvé (rejected by God) · fr blâmé (rejected) · bg отхвърлен (rejected) · fr maudit (rejected by God) · nl immoreel (immoral) · fi kirottu (rejected by God) · gd olc (immoral) · de abgelehnt (rejected) · es desdichado (rejected) · fr maudit (immoral) · es anatematizado (rejected by God) · gd daoidh (rejected) · fr condamné (rejected) · gd dubhailceach (rejected) · mk ра́звратен (immoral) · gd droch-bheusach (immoral) · fr immoral (immoral) · es reprobado (rejected) · nl verlaten (rejected by God) · tr alçak (immoral) · pt reprovado (rejected) · fr répudié (rejected) · fr marginalisé (rejected) · es réprobo (rejected by God) · fi moraaliton (immoral) · de verwerflich (immoral) · es infamado (rejected) · ms laknatullah (rejected by God) · pt réprobo (immoral) · es excomulgado (rejected by God) · fr banni (rejected) · tr lanetli (rejected by God) · tr lanetlenmiş (rejected by God) · fr blackboulé (rejected) · de verkommen (immoral) · tr adi (immoral) · fr rejeté (rejected) · fr flétri (rejected) · fr évincé (rejected) · fi tuomittu (rejected by God) · et hukkamõistetu (rejected) · nl verworpen (rejected by God) · mk о́суден (rejected by God) · gd dubhailceach (immoral) · gd ainbheusach (immoral) · ru безнра́вственный (immoral) · es reprobado (rejected by God) · el φαύλος (immoral) · mk о́дбиен (rejected) · bg развратен (immoral) · fr infâme (immoral) · no forkaste (rejected) · nl verworpen (rejected) · tr reddedilmiş (rejected) · bg безпътен (immoral) · es inmundo (immoral) · fi hylätty (rejected by God) · es maldito (rejected by God) · mk о́тфрлен (rejected) · gd dubhalceach (rejected by God) · sv förtappad (rejected by God) · de zurückgewiesen (rejected) · pt réprobo (rejected by God) · ru распу́тный (immoral) · de aussortiert (rejected) · gd daoidh (rejected by God) · es réprobo (immoral) · fr stigmatisé (rejected by God) · fi hylätty (rejected) · fr anathématisé (rejected by God) · de verworfen (rejected by God) · fr cynique (immoral) · nl veroordeeld (rejected) · de verworfen (immoral) · fr excommunié (rejected by God) · tr ahlâksız (immoral)

wikipedia: Middle English

reprobate en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/

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).

Meanings

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
   • 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. 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
2. A person with low morals or principles.
   • [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. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
   • "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?" 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
   • I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana:
   • 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. 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50, on the Hammersmith & City line:

Forms

Relateds

depraved

Synonyms

icchantika · anathema

Translations (34)

bg грешник (sinful person) · ru распу́тник (individual with low morals) · de Sünder (sinful person) · pt réprobo (individual with low morals) · tr günahkâr (sinful person) · nl schurk (individual with low morals) · mk про́клетник (sinful person) · nl onverlaat (individual with low morals) · gd peacach (sinful person) · es réprobo (individual with low morals) · tr ahlâksız (individual with low morals) · nl zondaar (sinful person) · gd daoidh (individual with low morals) · bg негодник (individual with low morals) · de Gauner (individual with low morals) · ms laknatullah (sinful person) · mk превр́тливец (individual with low morals) · gd droch-dhuine (individual with low morals) · fi syntinen (sinful person) · de Schurke (individual with low morals) · ga alfraits (individual with low morals) · es libertino (individual with low morals) · fi hulttio (individual with low morals) · ru негодя́й (individual with low morals) · mk гре́шник (sinful person) · ru нечести́вец (sinful person) · tr alçak (individual with low morals) · gd daoidh (sinful person) · mk ра́звратник (individual with low morals) · es granuja (individual with low morals) · gd droch-dhuine (sinful person) · fi heittiö (individual with low morals) · es réprobo (sinful person) · de Halunke (individual with low morals)

wikipedia: Middle English

reprobate en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove.

Meanings

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;... 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 274:
2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
3. To refuse, set aside.

Forms

Deriveds

approbate and reprobate · unreprobated · reprobater

Translations (30)

nl verlaten (abandon) · pt reprovar (condemn) · got 𐌹𐌳𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (condemn) · fi kieltää (refuse) · el καταδικάζω (condemn) · de verwerfen (refuse) · de verdammen (condemn) · de für gottlos erklären (abandon) · el απορρίπτω (refuse) · mk о́тфрли (refuse) · cs zavrhnout (condemn) · fi tuomita (condemn) · bg порицавам (condemn) · bg осъждам (condemn) · de verweigern (refuse) · fi sivuuttaa (refuse) · bg отхвърлям (refuse) · nl veroordelen (condemn) · nl weigeren (refuse) · de verlassen (abandon) · pt reprovar (refuse) · mk о́суди (condemn) · pt condenar (condemn) · ro reproba (condemn) · nl verwerpen (condemn) · fi hylätä (abandon) · de verwehren (refuse) · de ablehnen (refuse) · pt reprovar (abandon) · nl verwerpen (refuse)

wikipedia: Middle English