miscreant vs reprobate

miscreant

noun
  • One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever. 

  • One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain. 

  • One who has behaved badly, or illegally. 

adj
  • Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. 

  • Holding an incorrect religious belief. 

reprobate

noun
  • One rejected by God; a sinful person. 

  • An individual with low morals or principles. 

adj
  • Rejected by God; damned, sinful. 

  • Rejected; cast off as worthless. 

  • Immoral, having no religious or principled character. 

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. 

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