ˈreprobacy
[f. reprobate a.: see -acy.]
The state or condition of being reprobate.
| 1594 O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. 17 There is also a certaine sparke or seed of vertue euer remaining in man..vnlesse reprobacie haue ouer-run all. 1647 Trapp Comm. Heb. vi. 8 God..smiteth these sinners..with blindenesse and reprobacy of minde. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 156 The length to which human nature can go in reprobacy. 1819 Metropolis II. 203 With..all the appearance of reprobacy in their dress and in their deportment. 1873 Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 242 The extravagancies..were committed defiantly, in open reprobacy, in scorn of the acknowledged law. |
So ˈreprobance. rare (only in allusive use of quot. 1604).
| 1604 Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 209 This sight would make him do a desperate turne: Yea, curse his better Angell from his side, And fall to Reprobance [Qq. reprobation]. 1878 Swinburne Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. 213 Like Absalom with locks luxurious, Or like Judas fallen to reprobance. |