Example Sentences

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And, as there is no mean state in morals, so the extremes are necessarily finished and perfect types of virtue and reprobacy.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

There is such a state, in the end, as hopeless, irreclaimable reprobacy.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Amongst these poor wanderers there is none of the reckless personal negligence and filth of hopeless reprobacy; neither is there a shadow of the professional ostentation of poverty amongst them.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin

Several years since your prayers were solicited in behalf of one who seemed given over to hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind.

From The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer by Whittle, D. W. (Daniel Webster)