reprobated

Baker observes but too truly, that the "State of Innocence" recals the idea reprobated by Marvell in his address to Milton:

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665

Jonson's fault that many of his successors did precisely the thing that he had reprobated, that is, degrade the humour: into an oddity of speech, an eccentricity of manner, of dress, or cut of beard.

Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605

"reprobated" in addresses by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

I returned home, not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned, not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.

Chapter 3 2010

I returned home, not disappointed, for I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor had so strongly reprobated; but I did not feel much inclined to study the books which I had procured at his recommendation.

Chapter 2 2010

That might at least indicate they were unsure of their strength since, King claimed, they had previously “reprobated the Suggestion of Amendments” and insisted on “a total Rejection of the Constitution.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Disunion was less to be feared as a result of proposing prior amendments to the Constitution, he said, than from “the adoption of a system reprobated by some, and allowed by all to be defective.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

That might at least indicate they were unsure of their strength since, King claimed, they had previously “reprobated the Suggestion of Amendments” and insisted on “a total Rejection of the Constitution.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010