(7) Interestingly enough, in the 16th-17th century the word was in a similar fashion metaphorically applied to a man as 'a term of
reprobation', however, then, the meaning was weaker and less explicit than in the case of its female counterpart (e.g., 1596 "What, this Gentleman will out-talke vs all.
I think that you take me for one of those Puritans that formerly sent men and women suspected of incurring the
reprobation of God to he burned at the stake.
Add, also, that since predestination originates, on the one hand, in mercy, and on the other, in justice, in the former case having reference to salvation--in the latter, to damnation--it cannot be that any means exist pertaining, in common, to the execution of election and of
reprobation. For they are provided neither in mercy, nor in justice.
Although written in academic prose, Staging Desire will no doubt help to add to public understanding, wher e all too often ignorance and
reprobation still reign.
He also noted that his own telegram "caused such unanimous
reprobation at the time that I let the matter drop, although the 14-inch Lille refractor and my eyesight have not otherwise been found defective."
In both of these modes, board members are communicating, through support or representation of the victim, a message of
reprobation to the offender: we find your action unacceptable, we side with the victim and with the community against your action.
But after his chief editorial writer shot to death a political opponent of one of his papers, public
reprobation and his own ill health prompted Pulitzer to shift his newspaper interests to New York City.
(2) Within the context of the maternal and its representations, readers may observe a more extensive and philosophical preoccupation that shaped early modern thought: the fascination and
reprobation of origin.
The rumble of meetings where I was held up to
reprobation reached my ears; I heard about the demands that I repent and about the abusive articles.
The resolution he submitted for the Senate's consideration contained no penalty, expressed no congressional intent or desire to penalize, and made no mention of censure, condemnation, reproach, reproof, or
reprobation. To the contrary, Clay's resolution simply recounted the events as witnessed by the Senate.
Of this work it is impossible to speak in terms of
reprobation sufficiently strong: it is a work too gross to mention: and it is quite impossible to quote the indignant but too descriptive language of the critics in their severe but just remarks upon this disgusting production ...
But it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race was not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration; for if the language, as understood in that day, would embrace them, the conduct of the distinguished men who framed the Declaration of Independence would have been utterly and flagrantly inconsistent with the principles they asserted; and instead of the sympathy of mankind, to which they so confidently appeared, they would have deserved and received universal rebuke and
reprobation."
-- send hither the engineer Schittenbach --I'll lay all the shoes in my shop, the breach will be practicable in four and twenty hours -- don't tell me of your works -- you and your works may be damn'd --'), another sets off on salvation: 'Assuredly, (cried another voice from a different quarter) he that thinks to be saved by works is in a state of utter
reprobation' (pp.
