dispraise

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/dɪˈspɹeɪz/(UK)

Definition of dispraise

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
    “They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.”
    “Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.”
    “"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.'”
    “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.”
    “Mira could not find a single article dispraising him.”
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verb

  1. To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
    “They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.”
    “Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.”
    “"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.'”
    “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.”
    “Mira could not find a single article dispraising him.”

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.
    “Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.”
    “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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Etymology

From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.

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