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Webster 1913 Edition
Dispraise
Dis-praise′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dispraised
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dispraising
.] [OE.
dispreisen
, OF. desprisier
, despreisier
, F. dépriser
; pref. des-
(L. dis-
) + prisier
, F. priser
, to prize, praise. See Praise
, and cf. Disprize
, Depreciate
.] To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.
Dispraising
the power of his adversaries. Chaucer.
I
dispraised
him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shakespeare
Dis-praise′
,Noun.
The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
Dryden.
In praise and in
dispraise
the same. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dispraise
DISPRAISE
,Noun.
1.
Blame; censure. Be cautious not to speak in dispraise of a competitor.2.
Reproach; dishonor.The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertrans.
DISPRAISE
,Verb.
T.
I dispraised him before the wicked.
Definition 2024
dispraise
dispraise
English
Verb
dispraise (third-person singular simple present dispraises, present participle dispraising, simple past and past participle dispraised)
- To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:
- They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:
- 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.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII: