Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REP-RO-BA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. reprobatio.]

1. The act of disallowing with detestation, or of expressing extreme dislike.
2. The act of abandoning or state of being abandoned to eternal destruction. When a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience, it is considered as a sign of reprobation. – Encyc.
3. A condemnatory sentence; rejection. Set a brand of reprobatian on clipt poetry and false coin. – Dryden.