DEPRECATORY
\dˈɛpɹɪkətəɹˌi], \dˈɛpɹɪkətəɹˌi], \d_ˈɛ_p_ɹ_ɪ_k_ə_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
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tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
By Princeton University
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tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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sir richard blackmore
- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.