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/dˈɛprəkˌeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

deprecate v. t. (past & past part. deprecated; pres. part. deprecating)

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to desire the removal of. (archaic)

To protest against; to advance reasons against. "His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it."

To disapprove of strongly; to express a low opinion of.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deprecating" Quotes from Famous Books

... his breath—that they were what was known as "blighters." He recommended (deprecating the term) a "stodger." A "stodger" proved to be an egg-shell stuffed with bread-crumbs, mustard and ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various

... Agnes Barker's forehead, and for an instant her eyes fell; then she looked up again with the pretty deprecating glance of one who had been caught in a meritorious ...

— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens

... Alexander," observed Swinton; "the ways of Heaven are inscrutably mysterious, and when we offer up prayers for the removal of what may appear to be a heavy calamity, we may be deprecating that which in the end may prove ...

— The Mission • Frederick Marryat

... there was! Upon a reception-day he did find her in her mother's drawing-room, seated before a samovar, prepared to answer "oui" or "non" to any remark addressed to her. But Ivan had kept his place beside her for less than ten minutes when he was superseded by a deprecating envoy from the Countess. Fifteen minutes later he left the house and went raging home, to endure, for the first time, serious pangs of jealousy. And, as he sat listening to de Windt's calm prophecies of Nathalie's ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... I have been a very bad boy," said he, with a kind of deprecating smile, as though he did not believe more than one half ...

— In School and Out - or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. • Oliver Optic

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