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dispraise en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.
Pierre Petit, in 1683, devoted a long Latin poem to his dis-praise; and Parnell's charming Ode is well known.
1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 60:Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 42, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
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Synonyms
reprehension · attainder · damnation · blame · censure · dispraise · disapprobation · admonishment · censure · vituperation · attainture · chastisement · brickbatting · castigation · panning · attaintment · onus · reprehension · condemnation · blame · dispraise · criticism · disapproval · censure · condemning · reprehension · improbation · critique · discommendation · disapprobation
dispraise en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.
Meanings
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To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:"What," thought Edward, "the poet says in praise of one beauty, I say in dispraise of another: 'Her eyes, like suns, the rash beholder strike, But, like the sun, they shine on all alike.'
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 310:He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.
1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 157:Mira could not find a single article dispraising him.
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 9:
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Deriveds
dispraiser
Synonyms
criticize · deprecate · underestimate · fulminate · trivialize · scold · censure · downplay · underplay · degrade · keelhaul · minimize · condemn · castigate · bawl out · animadvert · give somebody what-for · denounce · berate · chew out · find fault · tilt · vilify · tick off · berisp · reproach · lace into · find fault · read somebody the riot act · admonish · downplay · lash · scorch · disparage · rebuke · blame · skewer · pooh-pooh · savage · drag · reprove · light into · denigrate · censure · eat someone alive · make little of · rip into · charge · derogate · get down · banalize · rate · bash · cut down · dispraise · vituperate · lambaste · denunciate · dress down · objurgate · rubbish · slash · vilipend · make nothing of · excoriate · blast · tell off · lecture · cannonade · play down · tear into · put someone on blast · chide · lay into · threap · belittle · slam · inveigh · deprecate · denigrate · get at · slate · reprimand · superficialize · bagatellize · derogate · reprehend · understate · de-emphasize · tosh · get up · set at nought · upbraid · chastise · dispraise · give somebody a piece of one's mind · lilliputianize