单词 | dispraise |
释义 | dispraisen. 1. The action or fact of dispraising; the opposite of praise; expression of disparagement; blame, censure. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] dispraisingc1386 mislovinga1400 dispraise1509 discommendation1540 discommending1544 dyslogy1837 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xi. vi The morall sense they cloke full subtyly, In prayse or dysprayse, as it is reasonable. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 280 He beganne to make a long oration in his dispraise. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 166 To mee reproach Rather belongs, distrust and all dispraise . View more context for this quotation 1783 Ld. Hailes Disquis. Antiq. Christian Church i. 3 Does not necessarily imply either praise or dispraise. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 73 In praise and in dispraise the same, A man of well-attemper'd frame. 1861 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxv, in Monthly Packet Oct. 338 Charles VI would not hear a word in his dispraise. 2. a. with a and plural. An act or instance of dispraising or blaming. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > instance of discommendation1571 dispraisea1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. iv. sig. Ll1v Little did the melancholike shepherd regard either his dispraises, or the others praises. 1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey 33 As they twittered their little dispraises. b. A cause of blame, discredit, or disgrace. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > source of discredit or discrediting circumstance villainyc1340 slander1390 ill1414 reproachc1450 opprobry1534 dispraise1535 slanderer1558 obloquy1589 disreputation1609 reflection1622 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. iv. (heading) A disprayse of the wicked. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xli. 129 To bee praised of a man utterly unworthy of any praise himselfe, is a dispraise. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvi. 257 How far from a dispraise in this humane consideration. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dispraisev. 1. transitive. To do the opposite of to praise; to speak of with disparagement, depreciation, blame, or disapprobation; to blame, censure. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] mispraisec1330 dispraisec1386 disallowa1393 unpraisea1400 discommendc1454 c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus (Harl.) ⁋105 Who-so wil haue Sapience schal no man desprayse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27585 We agh ilk man upraise, And in vr hert vrself dispraise. c1400 Rom. Rose 1053 For to dispreisen, and to blame That best deserven love and name. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxix. f. xxiiiiv She dispraysed hym in that, that he worshypped a man yt was nayled vpon a Crosse. 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iv. xi. f. 126 Do not such thinges thy selfe, as thou wouldest dysprayse in another. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes lii, in Wks. I. 782 I rather thou should'st vtterly Dispraise my worke, then praise it frostily. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Pref. sig. ¶¶v Foxes dispraise the grapes they cannot reach. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 288. ⁋3 While they like my Wares they may dispraise my Writing. 1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxvi. 231 Johnson, who..rarely praised or dispraised things by halves. 1852 F. W. Robertson Lect. 177 Men who cannot praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)] littleeOE low1340 dispraisec1386 minish1402 deroge1427 detractc1449 descryc1450 detrayc1475 dismerit1484 decline1509 vilipend1509 disprize?1518 disable1528 derogatea1530 elevate1541 disparagea1556 detrect1563 debase1565 demerit1576 vilify1586 disgrace1589 detracta1592 besparage1592 enervate1593 obtrect1595 extenuate1601 disvalue1605 disparagon1610 undervalue1611 avile1615 debaucha1616 to cry down1616 debate1622 decry1641 atomize1645 underrate1646 naucify1653 dedignify1654 stuprate1655 de-ample1657 dismagn1657 slur1660 voguec1661 depreciate1666 to run down1671 baffle1674 lacken1674 sneer1706 diminish1712 substract1728 down1780 belittle1789 carbonify1792 to speak scorn of1861 to give one a back-cap1903 minoritize1947 mauvais langue1952 rubbish1953 down-talk1959 marginalize1970 marginate1970 trash1975 neg1987 c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋5 Whan Prudence had herd hire husbond avaunte him of his richesse..dispreising the power of his adversaries. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 59 Fabius despraised renommee and vayne glorie, but onlie gafe his solicitude, thought, and his bisy cure about the comon profit of Rome. c1500 Melusine (1895) xx. 113 Dyspreyse not your enmyes though they be litel, but make euer good watche. 3. To bring dispraise upon, to cause to be depreciated or despised. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > bring discredit on or bring into disrepute unworthyc1230 alosea1325 low1340 ensclaundre1389 foulc1390 disparagea1400 deface1529 depress1550 discredit?1550 ignoblec1590 redound1591 reproach1593 blame1596 nullify1603 scandal1606 sinka1616 even1625 explode1629 disrepute1649 disrepute1651 lese1678 rogue1678 reflect1769 disconsider1849 dispraise1879 1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia viii. 226 These riches shall not fade away in life, Nor any death dispraise. Derivatives disˈpraised adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > dispraised misloseda1475 dispraised1552 discommended1586 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dispraysed, despectus, despicatus, obtrectatus. disˈpraising n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] dispraisingc1386 mislovinga1400 dispraise1509 discommendation1540 discommending1544 dyslogy1837 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋423 In dispreisynge of hym that men preise. 1483 Cath. Angl. 101/2 Dispraysinge, deprauacio. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PPPiiiv All the crymes of the tonge, as sclaunders, detractions..or dispraysynges, [etc.]. disˈpraisingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adverb] dispraisinglya1616 dyslogistically1862 uncomplimentarily1909 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 73 When I haue spoke of you dispraisingly . View more context for this quotation 1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 31 [He] is dispraisingly sketched by the authoress. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1509v.c1386 |
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