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discommendation|dɪsˈkɒmənˈdeɪʃən|
[n. of action from discommend v.]
The action of discommending; dispraise.
1573Abp. Parker Corr. 427 In whose discommendation..your honour once did write to me. 1599Breton Scholler & Souldiour 25 Oh good Sir! speake not so in Discommendation of a Scholler. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. lvi. 374, I had much rather have been in the company..than grubbing pens in my closet and all to get nothing but discommendation. 1837Carlyle Mirabeau Misc. Ess. (1888) V. 232 Let him come, under what discommendation he might, into any circle of men.
b. (with a and pl.) A special instance of this.
1580Lupton Sivqila 98 Truely the crab is a discommendation to the Peare tree that bare it. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 117 That rebuke, ‘Mary hath chosen the better part,’ is only a comparative discommendation. 1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 55 [We] hereby present the critics..with our hearty discommendations. |