Reprobate vs Recidivist - What's the difference?
reprobate | recidivist |
(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.
One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits; a repeat offender.
* 1914 , , The Uttermost Farthing , ch. 2:
As nouns the difference between reprobate and recidivist
is that reprobate is one rejected by god; a sinful person while recidivist is one who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits; a repeat offender.As an adjective reprobate
is (rare) rejected; cast off as worthless.As a verb reprobate
is to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.reprobate
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?"
Etymology 2
From (etyl) reprobare.Verb
(reprobat)Anagrams
* ----recidivist
English
Noun
(en noun)- This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist , and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.