单词 | deprecatory |
释义 | deprecatoryadj.n. A. adj. 1. Serving to deprecate; that prays for deliverance from or aversion of evil. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [adjective] > for deliverance deprecative1490 deprecatory1592 depulsory1609 1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. E2 Deprecatorie, in praying of pardon of a thing committed. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 190 Bishop Fox..sent many humble and deprecatorie letters to the Scottish King, to appease him. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 327 All his prayer..is but Deprecatory; he does but pray that God would forbeare him. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. ii. i. 89 Deprecatory Rites to avert Evil. 2. Expressing a wish or hope that something feared may be averted; deprecating anticipated disapproval. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [adjective] > remonstrating expostulatory1592 expostulating1637 remonstrating1660 deprecatory1704 remonstrant1773 remonstratory1823 expostulative1837 Protestant1844 deprecating1871 expostulant1880 deprecative1884 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub iii. 74 Before I had performed the due Discourses, Expostulatory, Supplicatory, or Deprecatory with my good Lords the Criticks. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. v. 38 The Israelite did..seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance. 1871 W. H. Ainsworth Tower Hill i. viii ‘Your Grace is mistaken’, observed Cromwell, in a deprecatory tone. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xvi. 291 ‘Oh!’, said Rosamond, with a slight deprecatory laugh. ‘I was only going to say that we sometimes have dancing.’ A deprecatory word or expression. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [noun] > word or gesture of protest deprecatory1654 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. i. 171 To convey his Consolatories, Suasories, Deprecatories. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 343 Now he is passive, full of Deprecatories and Apologetics. Derivatives ˈdeprecatorily adv. in a deprecatory manner, in a way that expresses a prayer or desire against something. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [adverb] protestingly1758 remonstratingly1829 deprecatingly1836 remonstrantly1872 deprecatorily1873 deprecatively1879 expostulatingly1883 expostulatively1888 1873 Brit. Q. Rev. 388 ‘I do not know’, said Sir William, deprecatorily, ‘that it is necessary to go down so low as that.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.n.1592 |
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