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Definition of Reprobation
1. Noun. Rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell.
2. Noun. Severe disapproval.
Definition of Reprobation
1. n. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.
Definition of Reprobation
1. Noun. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. ¹
2. Noun. (theology) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment; damnation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reprobation
1. probation [n -S] - See also: probation
Medical Definition of Reprobation
1. 1. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. "The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation." (Jeffrey) "Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin." (Dryden) 2. The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment. Origin: F. Reprobation, or L. Reprobatio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reprobation
Literary usage of Reprobation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"comes in men's reprobation and condemnation, but by turning from this grace of
God into ... and so, that their reprobation and destruction is of themselves, ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1873)
"The cause of reprobation was neither foreseen unbelief, nor foreseen sin, nor
hatred of God toward the reprobate, but solely the good pleasure ..."
3. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"Davenant made no scruple about reprobation. He despised to take shelter under
the mere ... reprobation, he says, is not a denial of sufficient grace, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"B. The counterpart of the predestination of the good is the reprobation of the
... This plan of Divine reprobation may be conceived either as absolute and ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is not even admissible to read into the Apostle's thought a negative reprobation
of certain men. For the primary intention of the Epistle to the Romans ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is not even admissible to read into the Apostle's thought a negative reprobation
of certain men. For the primary intention of the Epistle to the Romans ..."
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