REPROBATION

reprobation. Reprobation, n. a being abandoned to destruction

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Rep′ro‐ba″tion (–b?′sh?n), n. [[F. réprobation, or L. reprobatio.]] 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. 2. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.