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Dispraise \Dis*praise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispraised; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispraising.] [OE. dispreisen, OF. desprisier, despreisier, F. d['e]priser; 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.
--Shak.
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vb. (present participle of dispraise English)
Usage examples of "dispraising".
There was a bush he stood under from the rain, and he made verses praising it, and then when the water came through he made verses dispraising it.
Partly, too, Stephen’s failure to make his hold on her heart a permanent one was his too timid habit of dispraising himself beside her—a peculiarity which, exercised towards sensible men, stirs a kindly chord of attachment that a marked assertiveness would leave untouched, but inevitably leads the most sensible woman in the world to undervalue him who practises it.
There was the necessity of looking after Brooke, and scolding him, and of praising him to Martha, and of dispraising him, and of seeing that he had enough to eat, and of watching whether he smoked in the house, and of quarrelling with him about everything under the sun, which together so employed Miss Stan bury that she satisfied herself with glances at Dorothy which were felt to be full of charges of ingratitude.