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reprobates

reprobates is the plural of reprobate.

reprobates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reprobate.

Meaning of reprobate

Noun

reprobate (plural reprobates)

  1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
    • And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to...1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
    Synonyms:
    icchantika, anathema
  2. A person with low morals or principles.
    • I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana

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Phrases with reprobates

Questions about reprobates

What is reprobates the plural of?
Reprobates is the plural of reprobate.

Words near reprobates in the dictionary

  1. reprobate
  2. reprobated
  3. reprobateness
  4. reprobater
  5. reprobaters
  6. reprobates
  7. reprobating
  8. reprobation
  9. reprobationary
  10. reprobationer
  11. reprobationers

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