Definition of "reprobate" [rep•ro•bate]

• A morally unprincipled person. (noun)
• One who is predestined to damnation. (noun)
• Morally unprincipled; shameless. (adjective)
• Rejected by God and without hope of salvation. (adjective)
• To disapprove of; condemn. (verb-transitive)

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• "To her surprise Patty noticed that there was affection rather than disapprobation in the word reprobate, and she answered a trifle stiffly: "The Wattses are all well, I think: but, as for Mr. Holland,"
• "It is an absurd assertion, that "the demerits of the reprobate are the subordinate means of bringing them onward to destined destruction.""
• "For they are heard for those who are predestined, not for those who are foreknown as reprobate; just in the same way as when we correct our brethren, such corrections avail among the predestinate but not among the reprobate, according to the words: _No man can correct whom He hath despised."