deprecate

deprecate

English

Etymology

From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecārī (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē (“off”) + precārī (“to pray”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/, /ˈdɛpɹəkeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: dep‧re‧cate

Verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)

1. (transitive) To belittle or express disapproval of.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 150:

     He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him; deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 295:

     Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".

   He deprecates any praise of his own merits.

   They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.

   She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace.

2. (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
   • 2003, Dave Evans; et al, Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, →ISBN:

     A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.

   The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.

   It is still supported but strongly deprecated.

3. (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126:

     And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.

   • 1712, George Smalridge, “A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedneſday, January the 16th, 1711/12”, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18:

     […] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.

4. (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with depreciate (“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact that AHD4 states that deprecate has almost completely supplanted depreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.

Derived terms

• self-deprecating

Related terms

• deprecation

Translations

express disapproval of

Bulgarian: не одобря́вам (ne odobrjávam) Czech: neschvalovat, zavrhovat Dutch: afkeuren (nl) Finnish: tuomita (fi), paheksua (fi), väheksyä (fi), vähätellä (fi) French: désapprouver (fr) de German: ablehnen (de), missbilligen (de), nicht gutheißen Hungarian: helytelenít (hu), elítél (hu), rosszall (hu) Ido: desaprobar (io) Italian: deprecare (it) Japanese: 非難する (ja) (hinan suru) Portuguese: depreciar (pt) Russian: возража́ть (ru) impf (vozražátʹ), возрази́ть (ru) pf (vozrazítʹ), протестова́ть (ru) impf (protestovátʹ), выступа́ть про́тив impf (vystupátʹ prótiv), ре́зко осужда́ть impf (rézko osuždátʹ), не одобря́ть impf (ne odobrjátʹ) Swedish: avråda (sv), avstyrka (sv), avsvära

to declare obsolescent

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: merkitä vanhentuneeksi, poistaa käytöstä German: als überholt einstufen, als veraltet einstufen Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: elavultnak minősít Japanese: 終了する (ja) (shūryō suru) Korean: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: utdatere Polish: dezaktualizować impf, zdezaktualizować pf, unieważniać (pl) impf, unieważnić (pl) pf Portuguese: descontinuar Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: приостана́вливать (ru) impf (priostanávlivatʹ), приостанови́ть (ru) pf (priostanovítʹ), прекраща́ть (ru) impf (prekraščátʹ), прекрати́ть (ru) pf (prekratítʹ) Spanish: descontinuar (es) Swedish: avråda (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can

to pray against

German: beten dagegen Swedish: avsäga (sv), avsvära, ta avstånd från

See also

• discontinue

Further reading

• deprecate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• deprecate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• deprecate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Verb

deprecate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of deprecare

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Latin

Verb

dēprecāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēprecō