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reprobation

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rep·ro·bate  (rpr-bt)
n.
1. A morally unprincipled person.
2. One who is predestined to damnation.
adj.
1. Morally unprincipled; shameless.
2. Rejected by God and without hope of salvation.
tr.v. rep·ro·bat·ed, rep·ro·bat·ing, rep·ro·bates
1. To disapprove of; condemn.
2. To abandon to eternal damnation. Used of God.
[From Middle English, condemned, from Late Latin reprobtus, past participle of reprobre, to reprove : Latin re-, opposite; see re- + Latin probre, to approve; see prove.]
repro·bation n.
repro·bative adj.
reprobation [ˌrɛprəʊˈbeɪʃən]
n
1. disapproval, blame, or censure
2. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Christianity condemnation to eternal punishment in hell; rejection by God
reprobative  [ˈrɛprəbətɪv], reprobationary adj
reprobatively  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.reprobation - rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell
rejection - the state of being rejected
2.reprobation - severe disapproval
dislike, disfavor, disfavour, disapproval - an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
Translations
reprobation [ˌreprəʊˈbeɪʃən] N → reprobación f
reprobation
n → Verdammung f


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Grose that she was not at these times a child, but an old, old woman, and that description of her could not have been more strikingly confirmed than in the way in which, for all answer to this, she simply showed me, without a concession, an admission, of her eyes, a countenance of deeper and deeper, of indeed suddenly quite fixed, reprobation.
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