different between reprobate vs convict

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 Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convinc? (“to convict”). Doublet of convince.

Pronunciation

• Verb
  • enPR: k?nv?kt?, IPA^(key): /k?n?v?kt/
  • Rhymes: -?kt
• Noun
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nv?kt/
  • (General American) enPR: k?n?v?kt; IPA^(key): /?k?nv?kt/
• Hyphenation: con?vict

Verb

convict (third-person singular simple present convicts, present participle convicting, simple past and past participle convicted)

1. (transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.

   Synonyms: sentence, (informal) disapprove

2. (chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).

   Synonym: convince

Related terms

• conviction

Translations

Noun

convict (plural convicts)

1. (law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

   Synonyms: assigned servant, con, government man, (historical) public servant

2. A person deported to a penal colony.

   Synonym: penal colonist

3. (zoology) The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
4. (zoology) A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

Derived terms

• con

Translations

Further reading

• convict on Wikipedia.Wikipedia