Reprobate vs Accuse - What's the difference?
reprobate | accuse |
(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.
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
* (rfdate) ,
To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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As verbs the difference between reprobate and accuse
is that reprobate is to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn while accuse is .As an adjective reprobate
is (rare) rejected; cast off as worthless.As a noun reprobate
is one rejected by god; a sinful person.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
* ----accuse
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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