reprobacyn.

1591 J. Davies O Vtinam sig. Aiiii Not to bee tempted & exercised w^t afflictions, is rather an argumente of reprobacie, then a testimonie of Gods fauour.

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 17 There is also a certaine sparke or seed of vertue euer remaining in man..vnlesse reprobacie haue ouer-run all.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. vi. 8) God..smiteth these sinners..with blindenesse and reprobacy of minde.

a1681 H. Burton Disc. (1685) II. iii. 148 If any have brought themselves to such a Reprobacy of Mind, as to call Good Evil, and Evil Good; they are by the rest looked on as Monsters.

1717 T. Lewis Scourge 16 Sept. 277 They appear Ruddy and Fresh-colour'd; a Complection, that was once reckon'd the sure mark of Reprobacy.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 25 The length to which human nature can go in reprobacy.

1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 203 With..all the appearance of reprobacy in their dress and in their deportment.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 242 The extravagancies..were committed defiantly, in open reprobacy, in scorn of the acknowledged law.

1900 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 19 July 1/5 Patience has ceased to be a virtue with our good people in dealing with a worthless vagabond here, on account of his long-continued reprobacy.

1966 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 17 Dec. 10/1 This is only to name a few who will hasten to point out the reprobacy of placing wagers on human beings.

2003 D. Donoghue et al. Uncommon Readers 389 Few, if any, would will away our accumulated literary heritage. For the cynics, it simply provides too much evidence of people's reprobacy.