reprobate

Definitions

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. A person with low morals or principles.

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

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

“[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.”

“"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look⟳ on your face⟳? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"”

“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.”

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