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Definition of Reprobated
1. reprobate [v] - See also: reprobate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reprobated
Literary usage of Reprobated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Same as reprobated at Common Law or by Stat. Eliz.— Class 1 of Acts of Bankruptcy (save
and except as to the four months' limitation) is also the same class ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"tendency must be reprobated. To portray scenes of low successful villainy, and
to paint ghastly and hideous details of human suffering, can be no elevating ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And see if they be not reprobated from this one, precious, holy, divine, purifying,
justifying faith, which the saints do and did in the primitive times ..."
4. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1892)
"... it is confined to our own citizens, it is not to be regretted; but severely
indeed ought it to be reprobated, when occasioned by foreign machinations. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"But when the bill reached the House of Lords, several of these clauses were
severely reprobated by some Peers of the Whig party, and the case of Thomas ..."
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