deprecate
verb (used with object)
to express earnest disapproval of.
had deprecated
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past perfectof deprecate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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James had deprecated the idea of his coming to Golden and had ridiculed the possibility of his unearthing any information of value.
From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by William MacLeod Raine
At the time, he had deprecated premature rushings into print; but afterwards it was a blessed thing to remember the joy he had given her that last Christmas—the very last....
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
Leah soon found herself in the very dilemma she had deprecated, and the apprehension of which had kept her so long practically honest—without a situation, and with a damaged character.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 by William Chambers
There he was buried on June 14, without the slightest attempt at the pomp which he had deprecated in his will, and which he almost fiercely condemned in more than one of his writings.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Thousands had deprecated the attempt of the President to protect the frontiers and to sustain the arm of the western generals.
From The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce
