reprobatenessn.
/ˈrɛprəbeɪtnəs/, U.S. /ˈrɛprəˌbeɪtnəs/ The quality or state of being reprobate.
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ungraciousness1509
gracelessness1582
reprobacy1591
reprobateness1611
reprobancea1616
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Reprobaggine, reprobateness, reprobation.
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Reprobateness, the state of a reprobate; wickedness, impiety.
1799 tr. I. Kant Metaphysic of Morals I. 110 He exhibits himself in his reprobateness.
1830 W. Massie Sydenham (1833) II. ix. 34 I make no comment on this new instance of the shameless reprobateness of the Havilands.
1893 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 24 Apr. 1/2 Save for this one example of hardness of heart and reprobateness of spirit, the reports pronounce her a most exemplary person.
1922 Harvard Theol. Rev. 15 166 Luke meant..to prove on the one hand the political harmlessness of the Christians and on the other the reprobateness of the Jews.
1986 Eng. Hist. Rev. 101 792 His..survey concentrates on the interplay..between full-scale atheism of the truly anti-Christian kind and more commonplace states of reprobateness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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