reprobates

• "I think guys who are reprobates sort of socialize more with other reprobates, and Trent fills that category," Williams said. —  thetowntalk.com -
• The "mild and holy admonitions" of the church having been thrown away upon these reprobates, the clergy proposed to open a register of all that should neglect to receive the sacrament at Easter, and to attend the church services with regularity. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• He fancied that this trembling was the sign set on the worst reprobates, the sign which God had put on Cain. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• What justice is there in putting on one sinless head the demerits of a world of reprobates, and then letting the criminal go free because the innocent has suffered? —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• But when we consider how much he lies subject to the humour of all reprobates, and how easily he is tempted from his own house of poverty and melancholy: it is to be feared that he will be willing, too often to forsake his own Study of a few scurvy books; and his own habitation of darkness where there is seldom eating or drinking, for a good lightsome one where there is a bountiful provision of both And when he comes there, though he swears not at all; yet he must be sure to say nothing to those that do it by all that they can think of. —  An English Garner Critical Essays ; Literary Fragments

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