deprecate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecārī (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) + precārī (“to pray”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/, /ˈdɛpɹəkeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: dep‧re‧cate
Verb
[edit]deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)
- (transitive) To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
- They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.
- She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150:
- He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him; deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.
- (transitive) To belittle, depreciate
- He deprecates any praise of his own merits.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 295:
- Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".
- (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
- The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.
- It is still supported but strongly deprecated.
- 2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, →ISBN:
- A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.
- (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126:
- And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.
- 1712, George Smalridge, A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedneſday, January the 16th, 1711/12, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18:
- […] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.
- (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.
Usage notes
[edit]- Do not confuse with depreciate (“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact that AHD4 states that deprecate has almost completely supplanted depreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]express disapproval of
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to declare obsolescent
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to pray against
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “deprecate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “deprecate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “deprecate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]deprecate
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]dēprecāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]deprecate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of deprecar combined with te
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