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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reprobation \Rep`ro*ba"tion\ (-b?`sh?n), n. [F. r['e]probation,
or L. reprobatio.]
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. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the
human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and
punishment.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reprobation
n : severe disapproval
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal
prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin,
whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his
conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are
predestined to salvation.
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