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Much more would he have reprobated Dr. Priestley.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

Listen, Oh Belmont, to their dictates! reprobate not your child, though you have reprobated its mother.

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny

We have reprobated the artifices sometimes used by preceptors towards their pupils; we have shown that all confidence is destroyed by these deceptions.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

This theory will furnish us with a criterion of moral character—a code by which the Neros, Domitians, Caligulas, and Diocletians, whom men have reprobated and abhorred as tyrants, may be triumphantly vindicated and made honorable.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

It well became him, whose happier invention, the Castle of Otranto, was brought forward in the guise of forgery, so unfeelingly to have reprobated the innocent inventions of a Chatterton.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac