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单词 reprobation
释义 rep·ro·ba·tion
\ˌreprəˈbāshən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English reprobacion action of raising objections, from Late Latin reprobation-, reprobatio rejection by God's decree, from reprobatus (past participle of reprobare) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion
: the act of reprobating or the state of being reprobated: as
 a. : the act of raising legal exceptions or objections — compare reprobator
 b. : rejection by God's decree : predestination or foreordination to eternal damnation
  < the election, reprobation, and fatality of Calvinism are rejected — F.S.Mead >
  — compare election 1d, preterition 3
 c. archaic : rejection as inferior or spurious : condemnation as worthless
  < a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin — John Dryden >
 d. : severe disapproval : censure, reproof
  < the result of this almost universal reprobation … was his ruin — G.C.Sellery >
  < first to fix a mark of reprobation upon the African slave trade — R.B.Taney >
  < the shaken head of moral reprobation — S.H.Adams >
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