reprobate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
    — 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.
  2. A person with low morals or principles.
    — I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
动词 v.
  1. To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
    — Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...
  2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
  3. To refuse, set aside.
形容词 adj.
  1. Rejected; cast off as worthless. rare
    — Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
  2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
  3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
    — The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

词形变化

more reprobate comparative most reprobate superlative reprobates plural reprobates present,singular,third-person reprobating participle,present reprobated participle,past reprobated past

词汇关系

衍生词
reprobateness approbate and reprobate reprobater unreprobated
相关词
depraved

词源

词源 1
First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
词源 2
First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove.
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