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deprecatory, a. (n.)|ˈdɛprɪkeɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. dēprecātōri-us, f. dēprecātor: see prec. and -ory. Cf. F. déprécatoire (15th c. in Hatzf.).]
A. adj.
1. Serving to deprecate; that prays for deliverance from or aversion of evil.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 21 Deprecatorie, in praying for pardon of a thing committed. 1622Bacon Hen. VII, 190 Bishop Fox..sent many humble and deprecatorie letters to the Scottish King, to appease him. c1630Donne Serm. 1. 504 All his Prayer..is but Deprecatory, he does but pray that God will forbeare him. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. ii. i. 89 Deprecatory Rites to avert Evil.
2. Expressing a wish or hope that something feared may be averted; deprecating anticipated disapproval.
1704Swift T. Tub iii. (T.), Before I had performed the due discourses, expostulatory, supplicatory, or deprecatory, with my good lords the criticks. 1838Lytton Leila i. v, The Israelite did..seem to hear this deprecatory remonstrance. 1871H. Ainsworth Tower Hill i. viii, ‘Your Grace is mistaken’, observed Cromwell, in a deprecatory tone. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xvi, ‘Oh’, said Rosamond, with a slight deprecatory laugh, ‘I was only going to say that we sometimes have dancing.’
†B. n. A deprecatory word or expression. Obs.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. i. 171 To convey his Consolatories, Suasories, Deprecatories. a1734North Exam. (1740) 343 Now he is passive, full of Deprecatories and Apologetics.
Hence ˈdeprecatorily adv., in a deprecatory manner, in a way that expresses a prayer or desire against something.
1873Brit. Q. Rev. 388, ‘I do not know’, said Sir William, deprecatorily, ‘that it is necessary to go down so low as that.’ |