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Reprobate

,—an abandoned wretch, lost to all sense of virtue; e.g. It has been said of Pitt, that while he was begging his mother’s blessing on his knees, at her death-bed, he stole her purse out of her pocket, underneath her pillow.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Reprobate