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11 words match “REPROBATE”

REPROBATE a. 6 definitions
enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.
REPROBATENESS n.
The state of being reprobate.
REPROBATER n.
One who reprobates.
APPROBATE v.
To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.
CASTAWAY n.
One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. ix. 27.
DESPERATE a.
ance of a bad quality. A desperate offendress against nature. Shak. The most desperate of reprobates. Macaulay.
DOMINEERING a.
Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.
DUALISM n.
rary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.
REJECTANEOUS a.
Not chosen orr received; rejected. [Obs.] "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
REPROBATION n. 2 definitions
The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.…
VULGARITY n.
Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. B. Jonson.