Reprobate vs Apostate - What's the difference?
reprobate | apostate |
(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.
Guilty of apostasy.
* Milton
* Steele
A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
(Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
As adjectives the difference between reprobate and apostate
is that reprobate is rejected; cast off as worthless while apostate is guilty of apostasy.As nouns the difference between reprobate and apostate
is that reprobate is one rejected by God; a sinful person while apostate is a person who has renounced a religion or faith.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
* ----apostate
English
Adjective
(-)- We must punish this apostate priest.
- So spake the apostate angel.
- A wretched and apostate state.
