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  • noun Plural form of reprobate.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reprobate.

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Examples

  • The punishment of reprobates is final and fatal; that of God's people temporary and corrective.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • We may have reason to thank God that we are not as some men are, that are notoriously wicked and vile; but to speak at random thus, as if we only were good, and all besides us were reprobates, is to judge by wholesale.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • I think its worth establishing this now just in case you are under the impression that this blog has been in existence for the best part of two and a half years simply to promote over-priced food and clothing for middle class people who don't want to share aisles with the kind of reprobates that push their trolleys around Tesco.

    Left-wing fascism: an infantile disorder Johnny Guitar 2009

  • I think its worth establishing this now just in case you are under the impression that this blog has been in existence for the best part of two and a half years simply to promote over-priced food and clothing for middle class people who don't want to share aisles with the kind of reprobates that push their trolleys around Tesco.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Johnny Guitar 2009

  • Grotius explains _adokimoi_ -- "reprobates," thus: "Christians in name only and not in deed."

    The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

  • And worse than all, a Church in which some of the clergy themselves who come under my rule and dominance are more dishonourable and dissolute than many of the so - called 'reprobates' of society whom they are elected to admonish!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • And worse than all, a Church in which some of the clergy themselves who come under my rule and dominance are more dishonourable and dissolute than many of the so - called 'reprobates' of society whom they are elected to admonish!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • And worse than all, a Church in which some of the clergy themselves who come under my rule and dominance are more dishonourable and dissolute than many of the so - called 'reprobates' of society whom they are elected to admonish!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • The antithesis to "reprobates" leads me to prefer explaining with

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • I thought, as you told me of him, that this would be the result of the whole; for I discerned, by your relating of things, that the true symptoms of conversion were wanting in him, and that those that appeared to be anything like them, were only such as reprobates may have.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

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