reprobativeadj.

1785 J. Pinkerton Lett. of Lit. xxviii. 192 Not to speak of the reprobative testimony of contemporaries.

1822 Edinb. Dramat. Rev. 1 166 It is in the power of the Management to renovate such reprobative inconsistencies.

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iii. 109 Nor has ever a public reprover employed language more stern and reprobative.

1856 C. J. Ellicott in Cambr. Ess. 155 Even a collector like Fabricius..felt himself obliged to disclaim any, save a reprobative interest in these poor gospels.

1872 Contemp. Rev. 21 75 Infants and men are alike fit subjects of the elective or reprobative decree.

1911 Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Reg. 18 Nov. 2/1 The hoopskirt has appeared in Paris... If it is imported as a fashion, it will be so new as probably to receive more reprobative attention than even election frauds.

1933 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 165 156/1 The Commission felt that the language of the report should be more strongly reprobative of Japan than it is.

2000 I. Lehuu Carnival on Page i. 26 New publications at the time bore the reprobative label ‘cheap and light’.

1817 G. S. Faber in Q. Theol. Rev. (1818) Apr. 287 A certain number out of the same mass have been reprobatively left in necessary unholiness.

1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 149 He displaces the centurion, of whom the private secretary spake reprobatively over-night.

1998 A. Bottoms in A. Ashworth & M. Wasik Fund. Sentencing Theory iii. 89 In any specific instance of punishment one initially looks back reprobatively to the act committed.