reprobation

See also: réprobation

English edit

reprobation (countable and uncountable, plural reprobations)

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval, reproof or censure.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
  Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.
- 1808, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, History and Historical Memoirs:
  the profligate pretences upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.
- 1919 October 20, Virginia Woolf, chapter VI, in Night and Day, London: Duckworth and Company […], →OCLC, page 81:
  Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval.
(Christianity) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment; damnation.
(military) Disqualification to hold office.