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▪ I. deˈpreciating, vbl. n.
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The action of lowering in value, price, or estimation; depreciation.
1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 141 A wilful depretiating of one's own Worth. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 282 Whatever tends to the destruction, or depreciating the value, of the inheritance. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 403 Open depreciatings and ridicule can do no good.
▪ II. deˈpreciating, ppl. a.
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That depreciates: that lessens or seeks to lower the value of anything; that is declining in value.
1777J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 463 There is so much injustice in carrying on a war with depreciating currency that we can hardly pray with confidence for success. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 323 This depreciating paper currency was almost the only medium of trade. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. iii. 139 The depreciating manner in which he [Delambre] habitually speaks of..astronomers. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. xii. §4, I never heard him say one depreciating word of living man.
Hence deˈpreciatingly adv., in a depreciating manner; disparagingly.
1837Fraser's Mag. XV. 328 That gentleman spoke of the National Gallery very depreciatingly. 1859F. Hall Vásavadattá Pref. 22 note, A poet self-depreciatingly declares [etc.]. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. ii. 35 Literary men..are apt to think depreciatingly of the clergy as a class. |