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deprecate

verb
/ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/UK/ˈdɛp.rɪˌkeɪt/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēprecātus, perfect active participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).

  1. borrowed from dēprecātus

Definitions

  1. To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.

    • They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.
    • She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace.
    • He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him; deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.

  2. To belittle, depreciate.

    • He deprecates any praise of his own merits.
    • Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".

  3. To declare something obsolescent

    To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.

    • The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.
    • It is still supported but strongly deprecated.
    • A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To pray against.

      • And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.
      • […], though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.

    2. To regret deeply.

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Derived

deprecatory, self-deprecate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deprecate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deprecate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at deprecate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA