REPROBATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reprobation mean? 

• REPROBATION (noun)
  The noun REPROBATION has 2 senses:

1. rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell

2. severe disapproval

  Familiarity information: REPROBATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPROBATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("reprobation" is a kind of...):

rejection (the state of being rejected)

Derivation:

reprobate (abandon to eternal damnation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Severe disapproval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reprobation" is a kind of...):

disapproval; disfavor; disfavour; dislike (an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group)

Derivation:

reprobate (express strong disapproval of)

 Context examples 

He was warm in his reprobation of Mr. Elton's conduct; it had been unpardonable rudeness; and Mrs. Elton's looks also received the due share of censure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines—election, predestination, reprobation—were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The obligation of attendance, the formality, the restraint, the length of time—altogether it is a formidable thing, and what nobody likes; and if the good people who used to kneel and gape in that gallery could have foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a headache, without danger of reprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and envy.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)