reprobate

Borrowed from Latin reprobatus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), past participle of reprobare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/

reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
   • Bible, Jer. vi. 30

     Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     , ll. 696-7,

     Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate

3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

   The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

   • Milton

     And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.

reprobate (plural reprobates)

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. An individual with low morals or principles.
   • Sir Walter Raleigh

     I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

     "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

• depraved

Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/

reprobate (third-person singular simple present reprobates, present participle reprobating, simple past and past participle reprobated)

1. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
3. To refuse, set aside.

• perborate

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.proˈbaː.te/, [rɛ.prɔˈbaː.tɛ]

reprobāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reprobō