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Reprobate vs Depravity - What's the difference?

reprobate | depravity |

As nouns the difference between reprobate and depravity

is that reprobate is one rejected by god; a sinful person while depravity is (uncountable) the state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.

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)
  • (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
  • * Bible, Jer. vi. 30
    • Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
  • Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
  • * , ll. 696-7,
    • Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate
  • Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
    • The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
  • * Milton
    • And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One rejected by God; a sinful person.
  • An individual with low morals or principles.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • I acknowledge myself for a reprobate , a villain, a traitor to the king.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
    Related terms
    * depraved

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) reprobare.

    Verb

    (reprobat)
  • To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
  • Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
  • To refuse, set aside.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    depravity

    English

    Noun

    (depravities)
  • (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
  • * 1850 , , White Jacket, or, The World on a Man-of-War , ch. 34,
    • Depravity in the oppressed is no apology for the oppressor.
  • (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
  • * 1914 , , The Subterranean Brotherhood , ch. 16,
    • There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities .
  • (uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
  • * 1850 , ,The Scarlet Letter , ch. 8,
    • Here is a child of three years old, and she cannot tell who made her! Without question, she is equally in the dark as to her soul, its present depravity , and future destiny!

    Synonyms

    * wickedness

    Related terms

    * depravation * depravedness

    References

    * * * * * " depravity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " depravity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)