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Reprobate vs Probation - What's the difference?

reprobate | probation |

As nouns the difference between reprobate and probation

is that reprobate is one rejected by god; a sinful person while probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance.

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?"

    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

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    probation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
  • You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
  • A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
  • He got two years probation for robbery.
  • (archaic) The act of testing; proof
  • * 1661 , , page 20,
  • And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
  • * , lines 148-156,
  • And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .

    Derived terms

    * probationary * probation officer * academic probation