reprobate

• Griff referred to him fastidiously as a reprobate, which sounded nicely eighteenth-century. —  EQMM,August2007
• The Sovereignty of God, falsely imagine that real Calvinism must assert that God's hatred for the reprobate is an absolute loathing of their very beings, unmitigated by any compassion, tenderness, or benevolence that could reasonably be called love. —  Pyromaniacs
• "There is hope even for the reprobate, and the ruffian, in the fullness of time If these were only the ravings of lunatics, or the dreamings of philosophers, we should never have hunted them from their hiding-places to scare your visions; but these doctrines are weekly propounded in your own city, and throughout our land, from platform and press, to thousands of your children and their school-teachers, of your work, men and your lawgivers, to your wives and daughters. —  Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
• As one item of the cost of his adventure in County Clare he must pay two hundred a year to that reprobate, the Captain, as long as the reprobate chose to live,--and must also pay Mr. Crowe's bill for his assistance. —  An Eye for an Eye
• It is very probable poor Edgar Poe has had his faults exaggerated by those who suffered from the critical superiority of his intellect; since some of those notices of him which tend most to fix his character as a reprobate, and appear in a laggard way in the English periodicals, were probably written by some of his own countrymen. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860

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