The Only Use
reprobate
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
(Edited)
- I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.
p. 47.9reprobated = criticized or condemned
Definitions:
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(1)
(reprobate) a person who behaves in an unprincipled or immoral way; or behavior that is immoral or unprincipled; or (less commonly) to criticize such behaviorReprobate is sometimes used affectionately to describe someone who breaks rules in a charming or amusing way.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)