REPROBATE, a. L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow re and probo, to prove.
1. Not enduring proof or trial not of standard purity or fineness disallowed rejected.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jeremiah 6 .
2. Abandoned in sin lost to virtue or grace.
They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1 .
3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2 Timothy 3 .
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