reprobation

rep·ro·bate (r

-b

)

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]

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

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Noun	1.	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.

Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context

Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with a mixture of powers, having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system.

Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context

Ogg's who made a show without money to support it, and he had always heard such people spoken of by his own friends with contempt and reprobation.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

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