reprobate

English

WOTD – 26 June 2010

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/

Adjective

reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
   • Bible, Jer. vi. 30

     Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
   • 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, lines 696–7:

     Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate

3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

   The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

   • (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.

Translations

rejected

• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: zurückgewiesen (de), abgelehnt (de), aussortiert (de)
• Portuguese: reprovado (pt)
• Spanish: arrojado (es), excluido (es), desterrado (es), relegado (es), reprobado (es), desdichado, condenado (es), censurado (es), culpado (es), infamado (es)
• Turkish: reddedilmiş

rejected by God

• Dutch: verworpen (nl), verlaten (nl)
• Finnish: hylätty (fi), tuomittu (fi)
• French: maudit (fr), anathématisé (fr), réprouvé (fr), excommunié (fr), stigmatisé (fr)
• German: verworfen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: réprobo (pt)
• Spanish: maldito (es), anatematizado (es), reprobado (es), excomulgado (es), mancillado (es), manchado (es)
• Turkish: lanetlenmiş, lanetli (tr)

immoral

• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: réprobo (pt)
• Russian: безнра́вственный (ru) (beznrávstvennyj), распу́тный (ru) (raspútnyj)
• Spanish: infame (es), inmundo (es), inmoral (es)
• Turkish: adi (tr), ahlâksız (tr), alçak (tr)

Noun

reprobate (plural reprobates)

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. An individual with low morals or principles.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Raleigh and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

     "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

sinful person

• Dutch: zondaar (nl) m
• Finnish: syntinen (fi)
• German: Sünder (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: нечести́вец (ru) m (nečestívec)
• Turkish: günahkâr (tr)

individual with low morals

• 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
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• Portuguese: réprobo (pt) m
• Russian: негодя́й (ru) m (negodjáj), распу́тник (ru) m (raspútnik)
• Turkish: ahlâksız (tr), alçak (tr)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/

Verb

1. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
3. To refuse, set aside.

Translations

condemn

• Dutch: verwerpen (nl), veroordelen (nl)
• Finnish: tuomita (fi)
• German: verdammen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: καταδικάζω (el) (katadikázo)
• Portuguese: reprovar (pt), condenar (pt)
• Romanian: reproba (ro)

abandon

• Dutch: verlaten (nl)
• Finnish: hylätä (fi)
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• German: verlassen (de), für gottlos (de) erklären (de)
• Portuguese: reprovar (pt)

refuse

• Dutch: verwerpen (nl), weigeren (nl)
• Finnish: kieltää (fi), sivuuttaa (fi)
• German: verwerfen (de), verwehren (de), verweigern (de), ablehnen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: απορρίπτω (el) (aporrípto)
• Portuguese: reprovar (pt)

Anagrams

• perborate

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Verb

(deprecated template usage) reprobāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reprobō