Rēp'ro-bā'tion, n.

n. [Fr. réprobation, Sp. reprobacion, It. reprobazione, reprovazione, riprovazione, Lat. reprobatio.] 1. The act of reprobating, disapproving severely, disallowing, or abandoning. The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend, are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. 2. The state of being reprobated or abandoned. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden. Election, or decree of reprobation (Theol.), that by which a certain number of the human race are supposed to have been set apart from eternity as reprobates.