Objurgate vs Reprobate - What's the difference?
objurgate | reprobate |
To rebuke or scold strongly.
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?
(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 verbs the difference between objurgate and reprobate
is that objurgate is to rebuke or scold strongly while reprobate is to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.As an adjective reprobate is
(rare) rejected; cast off as worthless.As a noun reprobate is
one rejected by god; a sinful person.objurgate
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Verb
(objurgat)Synonyms
* See alsoreprobate
English
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?"