discommend
verb (used with object)
to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
discommendation
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a word derived from
discommend.
Example Sentences
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A dual point of view was attempted in a work, licensed in January, 1600, which pretended to be "a commendation of true poetry, and a discommendation of all bawdy, ribald, and paganized poets."
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
Another is a distinct arbitrariness in the commendation or discommendation of the examples selected.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
Now lyke as ingratitude is a vice of greatest blame and discommendation amongs men, euen so Gentlenesse and Kindnesse ought to beare the title of a most commendable vertue.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
