Licentious vs Reprobate - What's the difference?
licentious | reprobate |
Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct.
Disregarding accepted rules.
(rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
* Bible, Jer. vi. 30
Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
* , ll. 696-7,
Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
* Milton
One rejected by God; a sinful person.
An individual with low morals or principles.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
To refuse, set aside.
As adjectives the difference between licentious and reprobate
is that licentious is lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct while reprobate is (rare) rejected; cast off as worthless.As a noun reprobate is
one rejected by god; a sinful person.As a verb reprobate is
to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.licentious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* licentiousnessSee also
* incontinentreprobate
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , past participle of reprobare.Adjective
(en adjective)- Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
- Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate
- The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
- And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate .
Noun
(en noun)- I acknowledge myself for a reprobate , a villain, a traitor to the king.
- "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"