discommend

Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682)|A. Marsh
Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
The Victories of Love|Coventry Patmore
No, no, it is impossible; but your ladyship can't discommend his unwillingness to depart from his fee.
Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2|Henry Fielding
There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than La Religieuse.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1|George Saintsbury

Discommend a boy, and you discourage him; but commend him, and it will spur him on.
The Proverbs of Scotland|Alexander Hislop

British Dictionary definitions for discommend

discommend

/ (ˌdɪskəˈmɛnd) /

verb (tr)

rare to express disapproval of

obsolete to bring into disfavour

Derived forms of discommend

discommendable, adjectivediscommendation, noun

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