ˌreprəˈbāshən noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English reprobacion action of raising objections, from Late Latin reprobation-, reprobatio rejection by God's decree, from reprobatus (past participle of reprobare ) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion
: the act of reprobating or the state of being reprobated: as
a. : the act of raising legal exceptions or objections — compare reprobator
b. : rejection by God's decree : predestination or foreordination to eternal damnation
the election, reprobation , and fatality of Calvinism are rejected — F.S.Mead
— compare election 1d, preterition 3
c. archaic : rejection as inferior or spurious : condemnation as worthless
a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin — John Dryden
d. : severe disapproval : censure , reproof
the result of this almost universal reprobation … was his ruin — G.C.Sellery
first to fix a mark of reprobation upon the African slave trade — R.B.Taney
the shaken head of moral reprobation — S.H.Adams