Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being a reprobate; wickedness; profligacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Reprobation.
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- noun
reprobation
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Examples
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God that you are not all given over to "hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind."
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward
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Hence likewise he advised him, to foresee, with equal certainty, the greater evils which were yet behind, and which were as sure as this of overtaking him in his state of reprobacy.
II. In Which Mr. Jones Receives Many Friendly Visits. Book V 1917
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I was now given over to a hard heart and a reprobacy of mind to believe a lie and at last be damned.
One of the wonders of the age, or, The life and times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina, Johnson Olive 1886
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Do you not know, sir, that the great army of office-hunters in the land would raise a clamor which would not only drown your voice and crush your effort instantly, but imprint upon your forehead a brand of political reprobacy that would be buried in the coffin that held your mortal remains?
National Rectitude the Only True Basis of National Prosperity: An Appeal to the Confederate States Joseph Clay 1863
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This outflow of holy displeasure would prepare us to expect an everlasting reprobacy of the rebellious and unfaithful Church, but it is strangely followed by the most yearning and melting entreaty ever addressed by the
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After having spent a night in frantic mirth, as he was returning to his dwelling, it appeared to him that he had done so bad; his conduct had been so offensive to that Savior who died to save sinners, that he was surely given over; and as the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man, but I will give him over to a hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind, that he may believe a lie rather than the truth, that he might be damned."
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"Several years since your prayers were solicited in behalf of one who seemed given over to hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind.
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer 1870
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Hence likewise he advised him, "to foresee, with equal certainty, the greater evils which were yet behind, and which were as sure as this of overtaking him in his state of reprobacy.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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