Joe Sixpack American

Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 25, 2008

reprobate \REP-ruh-bayt\, noun, adjective:

1. a very wicked, unprincipled person; scoundrel

2. very wicked; unprincipled

3. to disapprove; condemn, censure

4. a person predestined to damnation, rejected by God

5. rejected by God; damned

6. to reject from salvation; predestine to eternal punishment

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B.O. spent his angry youth as a reprobate and a druggie, underwent an alleged spiritual rebirth somewhere along the line, and now, as Joe Sixpack American has pointed out, seems to be regressing back to his old way ways.

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

by 1545, "rejected as worthless," from Late Latin reprobatus, pp. of reprobare "disapprove, reject, condemn," from Latin re- "opposite of, reversal of previous condition" + probare "prove to be worthy.". The noun is recorded from 1545, "one rejected by God." Sense of "abandoned or unprincipled person" is from 1592. Earliest form of the word in English was a verb, meaning "to disapprove" (1432).

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