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Borrowed from Latin reprobatus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), past participle of reprobare.
reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)
- (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
- Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
- Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.
rejected
- Bulgarian: отхвърлен (bg) (othvǎrlen)
- Dutch: verworpen (nl), veroordeeld (nl)
- Estonian: hukkamõistetu
- Finnish: hylätty (fi)
- French: rejeté (fr), évincé (fr), condamné (fr), réprouvé (fr), blâmé (fr), flétri (fr), marginalisé (fr), banni (fr), blackboulé (fr), répudié (fr)
- German: zurückgewiesen (de), abgelehnt (de), aussortiert (de)
- Macedonian: о́тфрлен (ótfrlen), о́дбиен (ódbien)
- Norwegian: forkaste
- Portuguese: reprovado (pt)
- Scottish Gaelic: daoidh, dubhailceach
- Spanish: arrojado (es), excluido (es), desterrado (es), relegado (es), reprobado (es), desdichado (es), condenado (es), censurado (es), culpado (es), infamado (es)
- Turkish: reddedilmiş
rejected by God
- Dutch: verworpen (nl), verlaten (nl)
- Finnish: hylätty (fi), tuomittu (fi), kirottu (fi)
- French: maudit (fr), anathématisé (fr), réprouvé (fr), excommunié (fr), stigmatisé (fr)
- German: verworfen (de)
- Macedonian: о́суден (ósuden)
- Portuguese: réprobo (pt)
- Scottish Gaelic: daoidh, dubhalceach
- Spanish: maldito (es), anatematizado (es), reprobado (es), excomulgado (es), mancillado (es), manchado (es)
- Swedish: förtappad (sv)
- Turkish: lanetlenmiş, lanetli (tr)
immoral
- Bulgarian: безпътен (bg) (bezpǎten), развратен (bg) (razvraten)
- Dutch: immoreel (nl), verwerpelijk (nl)
- Finnish: moraaliton (fi)
- French: maudit (fr), infâme (fr), cynique (fr), immoral (fr)
- German: verkommen (de), verwerflich (de), verworfen (de), ruchlos (de)
- Greek: φαύλος (el) m (fávlos)
- Macedonian: ра́звратен (rázvraten)
- Portuguese: réprobo (pt)
- Russian: безнра́вственный (ru) (beznrávstvennyj), распу́тный (ru) (raspútnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: daoidh, dubhailceach, olc, droch-bheusach, ainbheusach
- Spanish: infame (es), inmundo (es), inmoral (es)
- Turkish: adi (tr), ahlâksız (tr), alçak (tr)
reprobate (plural reprobates)
- One rejected by God; a sinful person.
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel.
- A person 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.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
[T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50, on the Hammersmith & City line:
West of here, it ascends to its viaduct where, 20 feet above the ground, the Westway seeks to emulate it; two scruffy reprobates shouldering their way through a not very pretty streetscape; the one a railway built by corporate buccaneers, the other a road constructed as part of a discredited plan to girdle London with motorways.
sinful person
individual with low morals
- Bulgarian: негодник (bg) m (negodnik)
- Dutch: onverlaat (nl) m, schurk (nl) m
- Finnish: heittiö (fi), hulttio (fi)
- German: Schurke (de) m, Gauner (de) m, Halunke (de) m
- Irish: alfraits f
- Macedonian: превр́тливец m (prevŕtlivec), ра́звратник m (rázvratnik)
- Portuguese: réprobo (pt) m
- Russian: негодя́й (ru) m (negodjáj), распу́тник (ru) m (raspútnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: daoidh m, droch-dhuine m
- Turkish: ahlâksız (tr), alçak (tr)
Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.
reprobate (third-person singular simple present reprobates, present participle reprobating, simple past and past participle reprobated)
- To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 274:
Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...
- Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
- To refuse, set aside.
condemn
- Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) (poricavam), осъждам (bg) (osǎždam)
- Czech: zavrhnout (cs)
- Dutch: verwerpen (nl), veroordelen (nl)
- Finnish: tuomita (fi)
- German: verdammen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌳𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (idweitjan)
- Greek: καταδικάζω (el) (katadikázo)
- Macedonian: о́суди (ósudi)
- Portuguese: reprovar (pt), condenar (pt)
- Romanian: reproba (ro)
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /re.proˈbaː.te/, [rɛprɔˈbäːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.proˈba.te/, [reproˈbäːt̪e]
reprobāte
reprobate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of reprobar combined with te