Definition of "reprobate"

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Jeremiah 6:30

Strength and Art are easily out-done / By Spirits reprobate

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 696–7

And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana

[T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850

"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond

West of here, it ascends to its viaduct where, 20 feet above the ground, the Westway seeks to emulate it; two scruffy reprobates shouldering their way through a not very pretty streetscape; the one a railway built by corporate buccaneers, the other a road constructed as part of a discredited plan to girdle London with motorways.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 50, on the Hammersmith & City line

Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 274