Dictionary entry

Reprobation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rep′ro‐ba″tion (–b?′sh?n), n. [F. réprobation, or L. reprobatio.] 1. 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.

2. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.