dispraise

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure

   To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.

   • They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
   • Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
   • "What," thought Edward, "the poet says in praise of one beauty, I say in dispraise of another: 'Her eyes, like suns, the rash beholder strike, But, like the sun, they shine on all alike.'
2. 2

   Blame

   Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.

   • Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.
   • Pierre Petit, in 1683, devoted a long Latin poem to his dis-praise; and Parnell's charming Ode is well known.

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