dispraise
English
Etymology
From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈspɹeɪz/
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, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Acts ]:
- They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 310:
- "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.'
- 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.
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Noun
dispraise (countable and uncountable, plural dispraises)
- Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.
- 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 2057953:
- Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.
- 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 60:
- Pierre Petit, in 1683, devoted a long Latin poem to his dis-praise; and Parnell's charming Ode is well known.
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Anagrams
- diparesis