reprobation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REPROBA'TION, noun [Latin reprobatio.] 1. The act of disallowing with detestation, or of expressing extreme dislike. 2. The act of abandoning or state of being abandoned to eternal destruction. When a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience, it is considered as a sign of reprobation 3. A condemnatory sentence; rejection. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.
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