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Deprecation   Listen
noun
Deprecation  n.  
1.
The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented. (archaic) "Humble deprecation."
2.
Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.
3.
An imprecation or curse. (Obs.)
4.
A strong expression of disapprobation; an expression of a low opinion.





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"Deprecation" Quotes from Famous Books



... not of business that I come to kiss the Senora's hand to-day," he replied, with a melancholy softness; "it is as her neighbor, to put myself at her disposition. Ah! what have we here fit for a lady?" he continued, raising his eyes in deprecation of the surroundings; "a house of nothing, a place of winds and dry bones, without refreshments, or satisfaction, or delicacy. The Senora will not refuse to make us proud this day to send her of that which we have in our poor home at Los Gatos, to make her more complete. Of what shall it be? Let ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
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... Her happiness began to falter and darken like departing sunbeams. She remained for a space uncertain of herself, knowing neither what was needed nor what was best; then she spoke with resolute deprecation: ...
— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen
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... waved a deprecation with his maimed hand, and even smiled faintly. "I knew you'd say that. I knew what you'd think about it, but it's all the same now. I did it for you and Safie! I knew I was in the way; I knew you was the man she orter had; I knew you ...
— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
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... of one inscription might be best left to counteract the influence of the other. I know that with regard to the priests you experience some such effect from the atrocious attacks in the chief satirical paper of Rome, The name of this paper was given me, with a deprecation not unmixed with recognition of its cleverness, by an Italian friend whom I was making my creditor for some knowledge of Roman journalism; and the sole copy of it which I bought was handed to me with a sort of smiling abhorrence by the kindly old kiosk woman whom I liked best to ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
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... unknown to geometry, are going out of the rural landscape. And when they are gone, they will be missed more than the amateurs of agricultural artistry imagine at the present moment. What some one has said of the peasantry, may be said, with almost equal deprecation, of these picturesque tit-bits ...
— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt
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