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A reprobate is someone who behaves in a bad, way — and the word is often said with a half-smile. You might call a friend who drinks too much and tells terrible jokes “you old reprobate” and still pour them a drink. That is the usual modern use: a badly behaved person, but not one you are sending to court. Though actually, the word is older and darker. It came from Latin for “rejected, condemned,” and in old church writing a reprobate was a person believed to be turned away by God, with no hope of being saved. That heavy sense lives in old books now. You will not hear teenagers use it on the bus; it belongs to stories, colourful newspapers, and older speakers being funny on purpose. It can also be an adjective: reprobate behaviour. Do not treat the joke as the only meaning, and do not treat it as a technical word for a criminal.
無賴、敗類（常帶幽默、戲謔）
組成Does not split in living English. From Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), from reprobō. The noun came from the adjective: first the rejected person as a description, then as a name for that person.
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- reprobationthe old noun for being rejected, especially in religion, from the same Latin verb
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
reprobateadj詞源 1/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
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rareRejected; cast off as worthless.
- Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
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Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
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Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
- The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
- And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.
reprobatenoun詞源 1/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
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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 seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel.
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A person with low morals or principles.
- I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
- [T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.
reprobateverb詞源 2/ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/
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To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
- Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...
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Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
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To refuse, set aside.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。