dispraise

text: They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.

ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:

type: quote

text: Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.

ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:

text: "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.'

ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 310:

text: 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.

ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 157:

text: Mira could not find a single article dispraising him.

ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 9:

links: disapprobation disapprobation

links: censure censure

links: disparage disparage

links: criticize criticize

glosses: To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.

pos: verb

en-verb

expansion: dispraise (third-person singular simple present dispraises, present participle dispraising, simple past and past participle dispraised)

forms:
dispraises (present singular third-person)
dispraising (participle present)
dispraised (participle past)
dispraised (past)

ipa: /dɪˈspɹeɪz/

etymology_text: From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.

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despreisier

expansion: Old French despreisier

doublet

disprize

expansion: Doublet of disprize


dispraise

text: Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.

ref: 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:

text: Pierre Petit, in 1683, devoted a long Latin poem to his dis-praise; and Parnell's charming Ode is well known.

ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 60:

links: Blame blame

links: reproach reproach

links: disapproval disapproval

links: criticism criticism

glosses: Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.

pos: noun

en-noun

expansion: dispraise (countable and uncountable, plural dispraises)

forms: dispraises (plural)