reprobableadj.
/ˈrɛprəbəbl/, U.S. /ˈrɛprəbəb(ə)l/ Now rare.
Deserving or worthy of censure or reproof; reprehensible. Formerly also: †reprobate.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective] > worthy of rebuke
reprovablea1382
reprehensiblec1384
viciousc1386
reprobable?a1475
reprehendablea1500
rebukeful1530
rebukable1551
chastisable1611
castigable1716
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 363 (MED) Seynte Patrikke..prechede to reprobable [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. mysbileued; L. incredulo] peple of the ioyes of heuyn and of the peynes of helle.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. 151 (MED) I schalle divide the chosen peple of God from peple reprobable [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. evel; L. reprobis].
1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 42 To your reprobable dishonesties and rebuke.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. c i No thynge ther in was reprobable, But all to gedder true and veritable.
1650 A. Ross tr. J. Wolleb Abridgm. Christian Divinitie i. iv. 34 Man is reprobable, or may be reprobated, not as by God he was created, but as by Satan he was defaced.
1673 E. Polhill Divine Will v. 119 Indeed Original Sin makes all men reprobable; for all are by nature Children of wrath, Transgressors from the womb.
1894 Littell's Living Age 12 May 361/2 Frondeur spirits continued..to blacken..such abuses as were justly reprobable.
1951 E. S. Shneidman et al. Thematic Test Anal. ii. xiv. 153 This same desire in the patient, of concealing some reprobable act, appears in the efforts made by the central character to hide his crimes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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