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.
例文
1. He disowned his reprobate son.
彼は堕落した息子との関係からの離脱を宣言した。
2.He has always been a bit of a reprobate .
彼はいつも行儀が悪い。
3.He ventured to reprobate that common system.
彼は一般的によく使われている方法を大胆に捨てた。
4.Don 't reprobate a weak and foolish girl 's ignorance.
弱くて愚かな娘の無知を非難しないで！
5.The reprobate and Satan will suffer eternal punishment in hell.