disparage
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English disparage (noun), disparagen (verb), from Old French desparage (noun), desparagier (verb), from des- (“dis-”) + parage (“equal rank, rank”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
disparage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […]
TranslationsEdit
marriage
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VerbEdit
disparage (third-person singular simple present disparages, present participle disparaging, simple past and past participle disparaged)
- (obsolete) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC:
- Alas! that any of my nation
Should ever so foul disparaged be.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- To ridicule, mock, discredit.
- 1878, Mrs. Forrest-Grant, Riversdale Court: A Novel:
- Had he disparaged my personal appearance I should in all probability have laughed at him with lively indifference
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to match unequally
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to dishonor by a comparison
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to ridicule — see ridicule
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See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “disparage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “disparage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- disparage at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French desparage; equivalent to dis- + parage.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
disparage (uncountable) (rare)
- Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
- Ignominy, shame; the state of lacking respect.
DescendantsEdit
- English: disparage
ReferencesEdit
- “disparāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French desparagier.
VerbEdit
disparage
- Alternative form of disparagen.