Reprobated

Baker observes but too truly, that the "State of Innocence" recals the idea reprobated by Marvell in his address to Milton: ❋ John Dryden (1665)

Jonson's fault that many of his successors did precisely the thing that he had reprobated, that is, degrade the humour: into an oddity of speech, an eccentricity of manner, of dress, or cut of beard. ❋ Ben Jonson (1605)

"reprobated" in addresses by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

I returned home, not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned, not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I returned home, not disappointed, for I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor had so strongly reprobated; but I did not feel much inclined to study the books which I had procured at his recommendation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That might at least indicate they were unsure of their strength since, King claimed, they had previously “reprobated the Suggestion of Amendments” and insisted on “a total Rejection of the Constitution.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Disunion was less to be feared as a result of proposing prior amendments to the Constitution, he said, than from “the adoption of a system reprobated by some, and allowed by all to be defective.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

In my junior year, I went the way of Cowper and became convinced I was irrevocably damned, not because I thought I had been reprobated from all eternity past, for I had no developed concept of Calvinist teaching, but because I had talked myself into the idea that I had committed the unforgivable sin. ❋ Unknown (2007)

- Common Sense “And here without anger or resentment I bid you farewell, sincerely wishing, that as men and Christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right; and be, in your turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every individual inhabitant of America.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Etherington – and there heard – that her husband was in prison – and in prison for the debts of her daughter! her guilty – perhaps reprobated daughter! ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

The mother, like many other silly mothers of the age, sanctioned what she ought to have reprobated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So, Redemptionis Sacramentum had to say expressly: The reprobated practice by which priests, deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease. ❋ Papabear (2008)

Nay, my first impression was to thrust it into the fire, the rather that it reminded me, in no very flattering manner, of the loss of the family property, to which the compiler of the history was so much attached, in the very manner which he most severely reprobated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I believe many are saved who to man seem reprobated, and many are reprobated who in the opinion and sentence of man stand elected. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Everyone calls [my sister in law] a reprobate because she sleeps with three different men, [leeches] money off of me, [robs] children and beats up helpless homeless people." ❋ Clint Eastwo0d (2005)

[Example]: One who [cheats] on a [test] and thinks nothing of it. ❋ Jeremy (2005)

One who believes [truth] to be [subjective] is a [reprobate]. ❋ Fundie_posterboy (2003)

Oh [Bruce]? Don't [worry] about him, he's not a [threat], he's just a reprobate. ❋ Telusdood (2009)

that [Repro] is performing a [reprobate]. ❋ Reprobater (2022)

that time when [johnny B]. went on [probation], [got off], and then back went back on reprobation ❋ JohnnyB. (2011)

That reprobate [thinks] their [shit dont stink]. ❋ (2021)

after calling [Sandra Fluke] a "slut" and "prostitute" and asking for sex video to be posted online. [Rush Limbaugh] claims he acted like a [Democrat], that's what a blame shifting reprobate would do ❋ Chicagotom4099 (2012)

only a blame shifting reprobate would try to claim the job losses from the 2008 [Janesville], Wisconsin [GM] plant were [Barack Obama's] fault. ❋ Tom_4099 (2012)

"[Sindy] is a [huge] reprobate" ❋ Vita Smart (2022)