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Discommend v. t.

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. (R.) "By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others."

To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one. "A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry."

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Etymology of 'Discommend'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... down the Peloponnesian pride and giving place in nothing to the Lacedaemonians. For those who suppose a bad cause for laudable works and commendable actions, endeavoring by calumnies to insinuate sinister suspicions of the actor when they cannot openly discommend the act,—as they that impute the killing of Alexander the tyrant by Theba not to any magnanimity or hatred of vice, but to a certain feminine jealousy and passion, and those that say Cato slew himself for fear Caesar should put him to a more shameful death,—such as these are manifestly in ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch