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▪ I. dispraise, n.|dɪsˈpreɪz|
[f. dis- 9 + praise n.; or f. dispraise v. after praise n. Cf. OF. despriz, despris, and see disprize n.]
1. The action or fact of dispraising; the opposite of praise; expression of disparagement; blame, censure.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. vi, The morall sense they cloke full subtyly, In prayse or dysprayse, as it is reasonable. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 218 He began to make a long Oration in his dispraise. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 167 To mee reproach Rather belongs, distrust, and all dispraise. 1783Ld. Hailes Antiq. Chr. Ch. i. 3 Does not necessarily imply either praise or dispraise. 1852Tennyson Ode Wellington 73 In praise and in dispraise the same, A man of well-attemper'd frame. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. xix. 197 Charles VI would not hear a word in his dispraise.
2. with a and pl. An act or instance of dispraising or blaming.
b. A cause of blame, discredit, or disgrace.
1535Coverdale Wisd. iv, heading, A disprayse of the wicked. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1724) II. 718 Little did the melancholick Shepherd regard either his dispraises, or the other's praises. 1641Hinde J. Bruen xli. 129 To bee praised of a man utterly unworthy of any praise himselfe, is a dispraise. 1754Richardson Grandison I. xxxvi. 257 How far from a dispraise in this humane consideration. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. 33 As they twittered their little dispraises.
▪ II. dispraise, v.|dɪsˈpreɪz|
Forms: 4–5 dispreise-n, 4–7 disprayse, 5 despreise, des-, dyspreyse, 5–6 dysprayse, 5–7 despraise, 6 dispreyse, -prease, 6–7 disprase, 4– dispraise.
[a. OF. despreisier, -preiser, -prisier, = Pr. desprezar, despreciar, Sp. despreciar, It. disprezzare:—late L. or Romanic type *dispretiāre for cl.L. dēpretiāre: see depreciate and de- I. 6.
In OF., originally, the tonic stem had -pris-, the atonic -preis-, hence inf. despreisier, 3 sing. pr. desprise. But these distinctions were subseq. confused, and at length levelled under the -pris- form: thence Eng. disprize.]
1. trans. To do the opposite of to praise; to speak of with disparagement, depreciation, blame, or disapprobation; to blame, censure.
a1300Cursor M. 27585 (Cott.) We agh ilk [fallen] man upraise, and in vr hert vrself dispraise. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋105 (Harl.) Who-so wil haue Sapience schal no man desprayse. c1400Rom. Rose 1053 For to dispreisen, and to blame That best deserven love and name. 1494Fabyan Chron. iv. lxix. 47 She dispraysed hym in that, that he worshypped a man yt was nayled vpon a Crosse. 1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 166 Doe not that thy selfe, which thou dispraisest in another. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Pref. Wks. (1653) 12 Foxes dispraise the grapes they cannot reach. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. lii. To Censorious Courtling, I rather thou should'st utterly Dispraise my Work, than praise it frostily. 1712Steele Spect. No. 288 ⁋3 While they like my Wares they may dispraise my Writing. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith xxvi. 259 Johnson, who..rarely praised or dispraised things by halves. 1852Robertson Lect. 177 Men who cannot praise Dryden without dispraising Coleridge.
absol.1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 235/1 To fore thys tyme I despreysed and scorned and wend there had ben none other lyf than this. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xcv, That tongue that tells the story of thy daies..Cannot dispraise. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. vi. 16 When he intends to praise or dis⁓praise, he will doe it to the purpose. 1878Miss Tytler Anne Ascue i. in Sunday Mag. 36 As for you or any other..I will not dispraise, because I know you not.
†2. To speak of depreciatingly or contemptuously; to depreciate, despise. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋5 Whan Prudence had herd hire husbond avaunte him of his richesse..dispreising the power of his adversaries. 1475Bk. Noblesse 59 Fabius despraised renommee and vayne glorie, but onlie gafe his solicitude, thought, and his bisy cure about the comon profit of Rome. c1500Melusine xx. 113 Dyspreyse not your enmyes though they be litel, but make euer good watche.
3. To bring dispraise upon, to cause to be depreciated or despised. rare.
1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia viii. (1881) 226 These riches shall not fade away in life, Nor any death dispraise.
Hence disˈpraised ppl. a.; disˈpraising vbl. n. and ppl. a.; disˈpraisingly adv.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋423 In dispreisynge of hym that men preise. 1483Cath. Angl. 101/2 Dispraysinge, deprauacio. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 238 All y⊇ crymes of y⊇ tonge, as sclaunders, detraccyons..or dis⁓praysynges, etc. 1552Huloet, Dispraysed, despectus, despicatus, obtrectatus. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 72 When I haue spoke of you dispraisingly. 1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 31 [He] is dispraisingly sketched by the authoress. |