Venality vs Reprobate - What's the difference?
venality | reprobate |
The fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.
:* 1785': As your spirited paper has declared war, not only against '''venality and despotism, but was intended to correct follies and abuses in private life, I hope the following will come within its useful plan. — ''The Times , 17 Jan 1785, p.1 col. B
(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.
As nouns the difference between venality and reprobate
is that venality is the fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption while reprobate is one rejected by God; a sinful person.As an adjective reprobate is
rejected; cast off as worthless.As a verb reprobate is
to have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.venality
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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?"