单词 | unpraise |
释义 | unpraisev. Now chiefly archaic or literary. transitive. To dispraise, censure, criticize. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] mispraisec1330 dispraisec1386 disallowa1393 unpraisea1400 discommendc1454 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 27585 We agh ilkman our-self vpraise & in our hert vs vnpraise [a1400 Vesp. dispraise]. 1613 I. F. Christes Bloodie Sweat 64 Men Shall, what they had vnprais'd, remember then. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) vii. 45 Cannot thrice ten hundred years unpraise The boist'rous boy, and blast his guilty bays? 1729 R. Savage Wanderer i. 345 Shou'd some nobler Bard their Worth unpraise, Deserting Morals, that adorn his Lays. 1838 E. B. Pusey tr. St. Augustine Confessions iv. 59 Had he been unpraised, and these selfsame men had dispraised him, and with dispraise and contempt told the very same things of him, [etc.]. 1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 Oct. Many of the same voices from the inner circles are to be heard unpraising him. 2012 P. O. Skjærvø in T. Daryaee Oxf. Handbk. Iranian Hist. iii. 79 He would not unpraise the Daēnā Māzdayasni were his bones, consciousness, and life-breath to be wrenched apart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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