All 5 Uses of
reprobate
in
Mansfield Park
- The obligation of attendance, the formality, the restraint, the length of time—altogether it is a formidable thing, and what nobody likes; and if the good people who used to kneel and gape in that gallery could have foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a headache, without danger of reprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and envy.
Chpt 9reprobation = condemnation
- Why did such an idea occur to her even enough to be reprobated and forbidden?
Chpt 27reprobated = criticized
- Here was again a something of the same Mr. Crawford whom she had so reprobated before.
Chpt 33
- She reprobated her brother's folly in being drawn on by a woman whom he had never cared for, to do what must lose him the woman he adored; but still more the folly of poor Maria, in sacrificing such a situation, plunging into such difficulties, under the idea of being really loved by a man who had long ago made his indifference clear.
Chpt 47
- The want of common discretion, of caution: his going down to Richmond for the whole time of her being at Twickenham; her putting herself in the power of a servant; it was the detection, in short—oh, Fanny! it was the detection, not the offence, which she reprobated.
Chpt 47 *
Definition:
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(reprobation as in: she fears their reprobation) expression of criticism