different between reprobate vs reprobation

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 French réprobation, or Latin reprobatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???be???n/

Noun

reprobation (countable and uncountable, plural reprobations)

1. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval, reproof or censure.
   • 1808, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, History and Historical Memoirs

     the profligate pretences upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.
2. (Christianity) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment; damnation.
3. (military) Disqualification to hold office.

Related terms

• reprobate
• reprobationary
• reprobative

Anagrams

• preabortion, probationer