dispraise

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dispraise

  • /dɪˈspɹeɪz/ UK

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From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.

verb dispraises · dispraising · dispraised

  1. To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize. They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.

noun dispraises

  1. countable, uncountable Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism. Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.

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