different between reprobate vs apostate

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??b?t/

Adjective

reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.

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

2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

   The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

Translations

Noun

reprobate (plural reprobates)

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. An individual with low morals or principles.
   • c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana

     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?"

Related terms

• depraved

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??be?t/

Verb

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

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

Translations

Anagrams

• perborate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.pro?ba?.te/, [r?p???bä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.pro?ba.te/, [r?p???b??t??]

Verb

reprob?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reprob?

English

Etymology

From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apostát?s, “rebel”), from ???????? (aphíst?mi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ??? (apó, “from”) + ?????? (híst?mi, “to stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?s.te?t/, /??p?s.t?t/

Adjective

apostate (not comparable)

1. Guilty of apostasy.
   • a wretched and apostate state

Translations

Noun

apostate (plural apostates)

1. A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
2. (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

Synonyms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• heresy
• heretic
• heretical

Further reading

• Apostasy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

apostate f

1. plural of apostata

Portuguese

Verb

apostate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of apostatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of apostatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of apostatar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of apostatar

Spanish

Verb

apostate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of apostatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of apostatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of apostatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of apostatar.