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Reprobate

noun

A person without moral scruples. Synonym: miscreant.

verb

(past & past part. reprobated; pres. part. reprobating)

Reject (documents) as invalid.

Abandon to eternal damnation.

Express strong disapproval of. Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate. "These ideas were reprobated"

adjective

Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good. Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted. "A perverted sense of loyalty" , "The reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

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... but on the 13th of June the bill passed the commons as it originally stood—a few boundary amendments, made in committee, alone excepted. The bill thus passed was sent back to the lords for their concurrence in the amendments, on which occasion Chatham rose to reprobate the whole spirit of the bill. It tended, he said, to establish the worst of despotisms, and denounced it as a most cruel, oppressive, and odious measure—a measure which destroyed the very roots of justice and good principle. He called the bill "a child of inordinate ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... out of their hearts or letting Him in. And when God visits He forces Himself on our attention. He knocks at the door of our hard hearts so loudly and sharply that He forces all to confess that He is there—all who are not utterly reprobate and spiritually dead. In blessings as well as in curses, God knocks at our hearts. By sudden good fortune, as well as by sudden mishap; by a great deliverance from enemies, by an abundant harvest, as well as by famine and pestilence. Therefore ...

— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley

... course utterly reprobate my wild notion of circular elevation; it is a satisfaction to me to think that I perceived there was a screw loose in the old view, and, so far, I think I was of some ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... bottles: a slab of ginger-bread for light nocturnal refection, and her own pot of bear's grease. Perhaps it was the piteous defencelessness of youthful sleep, perhaps it was some lingering memory of her father's caress; but as she gazed at him with troubled eyes, the juvenile reprobate slipped back into the baby-boy that she had carried in her own childish arms such a short time ago, when the maternal responsibility had descended with the dead mother's ill-fitting dresses upon her lank girlish figure and scant ...

— A Phyllis of the Sierras • Bret Harte

... that thou lovest thy mother?" he cried triumphantly, forgetting the reprobate nature of the catechist, and anxious only to come well out of the ...

— The Gathering of Brother Hilarius • Michael Fairless

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