# reprobate
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin reprobatus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), past participle of reprobare.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Adjective

reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)
* (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:30:Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
* 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.

##### Translations
#### Noun

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.

##### Related terms

* depraved

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Verb

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.

##### Derived terms

* approbate and reprobate

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* perborate

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /re.proˈbaː.te/, [rɛprɔˈbäːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /re.proˈba.te/, [reproˈbäːt̪e]

### Verb

reprobāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of reprobō

## Spanish
### Verb

reprobate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of reprobar combined with te