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Definition of Deprecations
1. deprecation [n] - See also: deprecation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deprecations
Literary usage of Deprecations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of by Charles Wheatly (1819)
"Of the deprecations. ... begin to ask: and because deliverance jrom evil is the
first step to felicity, we begin with these deprecations for removing it. ..."
2. A catechism on the Common prayer by Alexander Watson (1843)
"What follows the invocation?—The deprecations. What are the deprecations ?—Short
prayers against evil. ..."
3. The Prayer book: with Scripture proofs and historical notes by Augustus Theodore Wirgman (1884)
"The Mediaeval Invocations of the Saints were struck out, because there is but
one Mediator, and we need not their intercession. Second, the deprecations ..."
4. Instructions in reading the liturgy of the united Church of England and Ireland by John Henry Howlett, Church of England services (1862)
"THE deprecations. The Minister must be careful to adopt the rising inflection at
the end of his part of these deprecations ..."
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