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Dispraise
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden. In praise and in dispraise the same. Tennyson.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.