Reprobation
[,reprә'beiʃәn]
Definition
(noun.) severe disapproval.
(noun.) rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell.
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Definition
(n.) The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.
(n.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.
Checker: Luther
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Condemnation, censure, REPROOF.
Typist: Owen
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In theology the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition others are predestined to salvation.
Checker: Max
Examples
- Any woman that dies unmarried is looked upon to die in a state of reprobation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At moments she was a Calvinist, and, sinking into the gulf of religious despair, she saw darkening over her the doom of reprobation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But I am not worth receiving further proof even of Heaven's reprobation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Dorothea's brow took an expression of reprobation and pity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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