单词 | disparagement |
释义 | disparagementn.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of persons of unequal rank disparagec1315 disparagement1523 disparaging1528 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. 23 If he be vnmaryed, than his maryage to gyue or sell to whome he wyll without dispargement. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 368 In our law it is reputed a Disparagement for a warde in Chiualrie..to be married to the daughter of one that dwelt in a Borowe. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. v. 98 Offering to his ward couenable mariage without dispergement. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk3 He..Thought that match a fowle disparagement. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 21 A wife..fit for him without disparity or Disparagement. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. ii. 52 Some houses lost their patrician status by marriages of disparagement. 2. Lowering of value, honour, or estimation; dishonour, indignity, disgrace, discredit; that which causes or brings loss of dignity, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] debatec1460 disparagement1486 embasement1575 digraduation1577 lessening1579 degraduation1581 disparagea1592 bastardizing1598 debasement1602 deplumation1611 depression1628 vilificationa1631 degradement1641 degrading1646 prostration1647 deprisure1648 embasure1656 embasing1659 debasure1683 degradationc1752 derogation1785 demotion1872 objectification1973 1486 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 2 Women..been..defoiled to the..Disparagements of the said Women. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. L4 To haue commandement ouer Gally-slaues is a disparagement, rather than an honour. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 148 Passed sentence may not be recal'd But to our honours great disparagement . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 28 If Sir Iohn Falstaffe haue committed disparagements vnto you. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. B4 In that doctoral chair, where once the lernedest of England thought it no disparagement to sit at his feet. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. To Rdr. 'Tis no Disparagement to understand the Canting Terms: It may chance to save your Throat from being cut, or (at least) your Pocket from being pick'd. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §6. 108 No disparagement is meant to the understandings of the authors. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. ii. 116 Nor is this any disparagement to their abilities. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 2 These appointments..have brought all the lesser dignities into disparagement. 3. The action of speaking of in a slighting or depreciatory way; depreciation, detraction, under-valuing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun] detraction1340 misspeaking?a1425 lightlying1451 obtrectationa1500 derogation1520 disparaging1528 vilipending1566 detractation1570 detracting1572 disprize1575 downcrying1575 lessening1579 diminution1586 disparagement1591 disvalue1605 undervalue1615 disvaluation1617 decrying1633 undervaluation1635 disvaluinga1639 vilipendency1653 undervaluing1656 decry1686 depreciating1705 decrial1711 depreciation1790 subtraction1812 belittling1837 to give one a back-cap1883 marginalizing1977 trash talk1981 negging1996 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. C3v [He] dare not lift his plumes in disparagement of my credit. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) v. 90 That Proverb of disparagement; A fool and his money are soon parted. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. lxxxii A Disparagement from Men of no knowledge in the things they pretend to judge of is the least of Disparagements. 1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. xlvii. 705 He had expressed himself with great disparagement of the common law of England. 1859 T. Lewin Invasion Brit. 61 A strong bias towards the glorification of the writer and the disparagement of the Britons. 1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) v. 106 We may observe in the New Testament an absence of all disparagement of the military life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1486 |
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