reprobate


NOUN:        1. A morally unprincipled person. 2. One who is predestined to damnation.
ADJECTIVE:        1. Morally unprincipled; shameless. 2. Rejected by God and without hope of salvation.
TRANSITIVE VERB:        Inflected forms: rep·ro·bat·ed, rep·ro·bat·ing, rep·ro·bates
1. To disapprove of; condemn. 2. To abandon to eternal damnation. Used of God.
ETYMOLOGY:        From Middle English, condemned, from Late Latin reprobtus, past participle of reprobre, to reprove : Latin re-, opposite; see re– + Latin probre, to approve; see prove.