Reprobate vs Inveterate - What's the difference?
reprobate | inveterate |
(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.
Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
* 1843 , , book 1, ch. 3, "Manchester Insurrection":
* 1911 , Morrison I. Swift, "Humanizing the Prisons," The Atlantic :
(of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 45:
Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 15:
(obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.
* 1622 , , The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh :
* 1640 , Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by , Chapter XIX [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772]:
* 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review , page 16:
As adjectives the difference between reprobate and inveterate
is that reprobate is (rare) rejected; cast off as worthless while inveterate is old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.As verbs the difference between reprobate and inveterate
is that reprobate is to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn while inveterate is (obsolete) to fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.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
* ----inveterate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
- In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
- [S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.
- A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty
Synonyms
* deep-rooted * ingrained * ineradicable * radicatedAntonyms
* casualVerb
(inveterat)- "the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."
- "none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "
- "The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."