?1551 A. Bacon tr. B. Ochino 14 Serm. xvii. sig. J.vi^v We oughte to beleue it to be so, as God hath declared, & to content vs with that way God hath taken, in electing & reprobating, neither to thinke nor suspect, that god hathe erred.

1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. iii. 6 That can but seriously consider..God's reprobating or fore-damning of millions of men.

1701 T. Wilson Serm. 349 I cannot but wonder that any should understand him, as if he spake of God's Reprobating.

1875 W. Anderson Regeneration iv. 167 I feel more than usual ardour in the reprobating of this error.

1993 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 16 Feb. a14 This reprobating of the Serbs is an oversimplification of this complex conflict.

2003 S. Kemal Philos. Poetics Alfarabi, Avicenna & Averroes ii. 39 The reprobating of evil deeds.

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxiv. 293 Faith and conversion..putteth not God from the State of a Reprobating or hating, or a not loving and choosing God.

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 103 A good way to counterballance the Severity of their Reprobating Decrees.

1728 Controv. conc. Free-will & Predestination 19 They make him the very Reverse of Mercy, even Cruel, Tyrannical, and Despotick, by their Reprobating Irreversible Decree.

1760 J. Green Princ. & Pract. Methodists 31 You have been observed..to soften that dreadful and reprobating language with which you were wont to terrify the vulgar.

1847 J. Kirk Cloud Dispelled xi. 164 He carries out his reprobating decree.

1867 A. Thomas Played Out xxii. 75/1 That was a reprobating reference to a rumor, which had reached Helston, of Roy being attracted to the point of compromising himself by a young lady.

1963 R. Daniells Milton, Mannerism & Baroque v. 81 Milton transforms the chain of being,..into a compelling axis or vista or route..along which the reprobating will of God passes to thrust Satan into hell.

1998 F. A. James Peter Martyr Vermigli & Predestination viii. 219 Preterition, however, is nowhere found in De providentia Dei. Indeed, Zwingli understands the reprobating will of God in the opposite sense.