Reprobation

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reprobation \Rep`ro*ba"tion\ (-b?`sh?n), n. [F. r['e]probation,
     or L. reprobatio.]
     1. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated;
        strong disapproval or censure.
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              The profligate pretenses upon which he was
              perpetually soliciting an increase of his
              disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming
              reprobation.                          --Jeffrey.
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              Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and
              false coin.                           --Dryden.
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     2. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the
        human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and
        punishment.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reprobation
       n 1: rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal
            misery in hell
       2: severe disapproval

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REPROBATION, eccl. law. The propounding exceptions either against facts, 
  persons or things; as, to allege that certain deeds or instruments have not 
  been duly and lawfully executed; or that certain persons are such that they 
  are incompetent as witnesses; or that certain things ought not for legal 
  reasons to be admitted. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  REPROBATION, n.  In theology, the state of a luckless mortal
  prenatally damned.  The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin,
  whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his
  conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are
  predestined to salvation.