evil vs reprobate

evil

noun
  • Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. 

  • Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. 

adj
  • Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). 

  • Undesirable; harmful; bad practice. 

  • Intending to harm; malevolent. 

  • Morally corrupt. 

  • Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. 

reprobate

noun
  • An individual with low morals or principles. 

  • One rejected by God; a sinful person. 

verb
  • To refuse, set aside. 

  • To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn. 

  • Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss. 

adj
  • Rejected by God; damned, sinful. 

  • Rejected; cast off as worthless. 

  • Immoral, having no religious or principled character. 

How often have the words evil and reprobate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )