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After the crumbling of the Sampson fortune, Old Chester had to plan for Lydia, and take care of her, and give her its "plain sewing"; so, naturally, William was reprobated.

From Dr. Lavendar's People by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

There was no offense in the southern colonies more deplored, more reprobated, more legislated against than what was known as “ingrossing, forestalling, or regrating.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Any breach of the sanctities of family life is invariably reprobated.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

The Manich�ans are the creditors, so called after the old much reprobated sect of the Manich�ans, who in the third century held the doctrines of the Persian heretic Manes.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William

The exuberant later style that resulted from a too ardent application of the principles of Michelangelo and is known as Baroque, though generally reprobated at present, must not be too sweepingly condemned.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe