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Example sentences for "reprobated"

Lexicographically close words:
reproachful; reproachfully; reproaching; reproachless; reprobate; reprobates; reprobating; reprobation; reproch; reproche
  1. The movers of the bill have hardly escaped ridicule; so generally is the measure reprobated as a source of fraud and public mischief.

  2. This state never experienced an insurrection; its opposition to the British power, during the war, waz steddy and unanimous; and tender laws and paper currency hav been uniformly reprobated since the revolution.

  3. This act astonished all honest men, and even the promoters of paper money making in other States, and on other principles, reprobated this act of Rhode Island, as wicked and oppressiv.

  4. These regulating acts were reprobated by every man acquainted with commerce and finance; as they were intended to prevent an effect without removing the cause.

  5. Positive assertion, sarcastical severity, and extravagant ridicule, which he himself reprobated as a test of truth, were united in this rhapsody.

  6. They reprobated the custom of decking out the portraits of the saints with crowns and dresses, the celebration of processions in their honor, and the offering of gifts and vows.

  7. Only zealots for the religion and those who sought to fish in troubled waters reprobated the terms of St. Germain and sought to continue the struggle.

  8. Must a discreet and pious man give up a principle because it has been disfigured by the fanatic, or abused by the hypocrite, or denied by the skeptic, or reprobated by the formalist, or ridiculed by the men of the world?

  9. She reprobated gaming, but could not exist without cards.

  10. With that policy, however much he reprobated it, Lord Cochrane wisely judged that it was not for him to quarrel.

  11. But the men in power did not choose to be blamed at all; they denied that any fault attached to them, and fiercely reprobated every complaint as sedition, every opponent as a lawless and unpatriotic demagogue.

  12. Sidenote: The proposed conference reprobated by the Sorbonne.

  13. He condemned the French for holding a separate council, and reprobated the discussion of topics of such importance as those now under consideration in the presence of women, and of men trained to war.

  14. For as these agree with them, or at least do not disagree, so far are they admitted; but they are repudiated and reprobated so far as they differ from them even in the least matter.

  15. Aristotle might be reprobated by certain early Fathers, yet furnish the phraseology for theological definitions afterwards.

  16. Assembling the people, he reprobated in strong terms the prevailing heresy.

  17. This impropriety, which is beyond a literary joke, was reprobated some months since by the Quarterly Review, but here the offending parties are properly visited with a burst of honest indignation which may not pass unheeded.

  18. His native nurse first taught him to kiss his hand to the moon walking in brightness; which, being especially reprobated in the book of Job, we persuaded him to renounce.

  19. Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears.

  20. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other.

  21. He prophesied the fall of the House of Austria, unless his brother the Emperor hastened to make peace, and reprobated the policy which brought the uncivilized Russians to interfere in the decision of more cultivated countries than their own.

  22. Some reprobated the intermixture of the civil officers of the state in a military institution.

  23. Glanville prefers the proof by evidence; and that by judicial combat is reprobated in the Fleta.

  24. Clark's version of the facts, but reprobated and disowned his course.

  25. If a Jew took up the story, he found his darling partiality to his own nation and law wounded; if a Gentile, he found his idolatry and polytheism reprobated and condemned.

  26. Finally; beside the silence of three centuries, or evidence within that time of their rejection, they were, with a consent nearly universal, reprobated by Christian writers of succeeding ages.

  27. Notwithstanding the claims of divine justice, all were not reprobated and doomed to eternal death.

  28. Dick, “for the benevolent purpose of conferring important benefits upon mankind, is to give the highest sanction to the principle which is so strongly reprobated in the Scriptures, that evil may be done that good may come.

  29. It is establishing a doctrine which is reprobated almost every day on this floor--that it is right to divide a people from their Government.

  30. Compulsory labour without payment is to be reprobated like all forms of corvee, but if we pay what we regard as a fair price and make the compulsion indirect, then we get rid of such an objection.

  31. Socially the tribes are polygamous, and sexual morality is low, though certain crimes are reprobated and severely punished.

  32. The Lodge Theodore distinguished itself by pointed opposition, continuing its meetings; and the members, out of doors, openly reprobated the prohibition as an absurd and unjustifiable tyranny.

  33. But I am in the wrong to adduce paternal or filial affection in defence of patriotism and loyalty, since even those natural instincts are reprobated by the Illuminati, as hostile to the all-comprehending philanthropy.

  34. When they were first checked, and before the discovery of the secret correspondence, he defended them, and strongly reprobated the proceedings of the Elector of Bavaria, calling it vile persecution.

  35. He reprobated the unconstitutional measure of erecting what he termed a Bastile in the very heart of a free country, as one that could neither have its foundation in national policy, nor eventually be productive of private good.

  36. Now, while we freely admit that there were in the South, instances of criminal barbarity in corporal punishments, they were very infrequent, and were sternly reprobated by publick opinion.

  37. Yet, it is condemned in unmeasured terms by most of the people of Christendom, is said to be abhorrent to the political ethicks of the age, and has been reprobated by some of the fathers of our own commonwealth.


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