reprobate: [16] The Latin prefix re- usually denoted ‘return’ or ‘repetition’, but it was also used for ‘reversal of a previous condition’. This usage lies behind Latin reprobāre (source of English reprove [14]), a compound verb based on probāre ‘test, approve’ (source of English prove). It meant ‘disapprove’, and its past participle reprobātus was used in post-classical Latin to denote a person ‘disapproved or abandoned by God’ because of their wickedness. => probation, probe, prove, reprove
reprobate (adj.)
early 15c., "rejected as worthless," from Late Latin reprobatus, past participle of reprobare "disapprove, reject, condemn," from Latin re- "opposite of, reversal of previous condition" (see re-) + probare "prove to be worthy" (see probate (n.)). Earliest form of the word in English was a verb, meaning "to disapprove" (early 15c.).
reprobate (n.)
1540s, "one rejected by God," from reprobate (adj.). Sense of "abandoned or unprincipled person" is from 1590s.
雙語例句
1. He disowned his reprobate son.
他聲明與墮落的兒子脫離關(guān)系.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. He has always been a bit of a reprobate.
他一向不很規(guī)矩.
來自辭典例句
3. He ventured to reprobate that common system.
他很大膽地擯棄了一般常用的那種方式.
來自辭典例句
4. Don't reprobate a weak and foolish girl's ignorance.
還是不要譴責(zé)一個軟弱而又愚蠢的姑娘的無知吧!
來自辭典例句
5. The reprobate and Satan will suffer eternal punishment in hell.