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disparagement|dɪˈspærɪdʒmənt|
Also 6 disparge-, -perge-, -parrage-, -paradgment.
[a. OF. desparagement, f. desparager disparage.]
†1. Marriage to one of inferior rank; the disgrace or dishonour involved in such a misalliance. Obs. exc. Hist.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. xii. 23 If he be vnmaryed, than his maryage to gyue or sell to whome he wyll without dispargement. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 455. a 1577 Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. iii. v. (R.) Couenable marriage without dispergement. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. viii. 12 He ..thought that match a fowle disparagement. 1651[see disparity 1]. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. I. ii. 52 Some houses lost their patrician status by marriages of disparagement.
transf. and fig.1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 325 In marriage therefore it behoveth us to be careful, that they whom we choose be of the household of God, professing one true religion with us; the disparagement wherein is the cause of all dissention.
2. Lowering of value, honour, or estimation; dishonour, indignity, disgrace, discredit; that which causes or brings loss of dignity, etc.
1486Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 2 Women..been..defoiled to the..Disparagements of the said Women. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 149 Passed sentence may not be recal'd But to our honours great disparagement. 1598― Merry W. i. i. 31 If Sir John Falstaffe haue committed disparagements vnto you. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. viii. §3. 43 To haue commandement ouer Gally-slaues is a disparagement, rather than an honour. 1644Milton Judgm. Bucer (1851) 303 In that Doctoral Chair, where once the learnedest of England thought it no disparagement to sit at his feet. 1676Coles Eng. Dict. To Rdr., 'Tis no Disparagement to understand the Canting Terms: It may chance to save your Throat from being cut, or (at least) your Pocket from being pick'd. 1764Reid Inquiry ii. §6. 108 No disparagement is meant to the understandings of the authors. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) I. xi. §2. 85 Nor is this any disparagement to their ability. 1869Pall Mall G. 11 Oct. 2 These appointments..have brought all the lesser dignities into disparagement.
3. The action of speaking of in a slighting or depreciatory way; depreciation, detraction, under-valuing.
1591Greene Art Conny Catch. ii. (1592) 13 [He] dare not lift his plumes in disparagement of my credit. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 87 That proverb of disparagement, A fool and his money are soon parted. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 82 A Disparagement from men of no knowledge in the things they pretend to judge is the least of Disparagements. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. xlvii. 705 He had expressed himself with great disparagement of the common law of England. 1859Lewin Invas. Brit. 61 A strong bias towards the glorification of the writer and the disparagement of the Britons. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. v. (1877) 106 We may observe in the New Testament an absence of all disparagement of the military life. |