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REPROBATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person without moral scruples
Synonyms:
miscreant; reprobate
Classified under:
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:
Similar:
corrupt (lacking in integrity)
Derivation:
reprobate (a person without moral scruples)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reprobate ... he / she / it reprobates
Past simple: reprobated
Past participle: reprobated
-ing form: reprobating
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)
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)
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