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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.
(01 Mar 1998)
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