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REPROBATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person without moral scruples

Synonyms:

miscreant; reprobate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("reprobate" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reprobate"):

degenerate; deviant; deviate; pervert (a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior)

black sheep; scapegrace (a reckless and unprincipled reprobate)

wretch (performs some wicked deed)

Derivation:

reprobate (deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

Example:

the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat

Synonyms:

depraved; perverse; perverted; reprobate

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

corrupt (lacking in integrity)

Derivation:

reprobate (a person without moral scruples)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reject (documents) as invalid

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "reprobate" is one way to...):

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

approbate (accept (documents) as valid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Express strong disapproval of

Example:

These ideas were reprobated

Synonyms:

condemn; decry; excoriate; objurgate; reprobate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "reprobate" is one way to...):

denounce (speak out against)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

reprobation (severe disapproval)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Abandon to eternal damnation

Example:

God reprobated the unrepenting sinner

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "reprobate" is one way to...):

condemn; doom; sentence (pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law)

Domain category:

theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reprobation (rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The want of common discretion, of caution: his going down to Richmond for the whole time of her being at Twickenham; her putting herself in the power of a servant; it was the detection, in short—oh, Fanny! it was the detection, not the offence, which she reprobated.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)