Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reprobation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Reprobation \Rep`ro*ba"tion\ (-b?`sh?n), n. [F. r['e]probation,
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

reprobation
n : severe disapproval


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