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downcry en · VERB
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(archaic, transitive) Synonym of cry down (“condemn, disparage”).
They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.
1864, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:
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cry down