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Webster 1913 Edition
Abandoned
A-ban′doned
(ȧ-băn′dŭnd)
, Adj.
1.
Forsaken, deserted.
“Your abandoned streams.” Thomson.
2.
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ;
as, an
. abandoned
villain
Syn. – Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile.
– Abandoned
, Profligate
, Reprobate
. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate
has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate
court, a profligate
ministry. Abandoned
is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man’s giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned
character. Reprobate
describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. God gave them over to a
reprobate
mind. Rom. i. 28.
Webster 1828 Edition
Abandoned
ABAN'DONED
,pp.
2.
Given up, as to a vice; hence, extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.