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Reprobate vs Rapscallion - What's the difference?

reprobate | rapscallion |

As nouns the difference between reprobate and rapscallion

is that reprobate is one rejected by god; a sinful person while rapscallion is a rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.

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

    * ----

    rapscallion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
  • * 1901 , , The Inheritors , ch. 3:
    • She was the sister who had remained within the pale; I, the rapscallion of a brother whose vagaries were trying to his relations.
  • (attributive) Roguish, disreputable.
  • * 1869 , . He Knew He Was Right , ch. 12:
    • [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
  • * 1895 , , The Carbonels , ch. 23:
    • "I baint a-going to give my master's property to a lot of rapscallion thieves and robbers like you."