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Definition of Dispraising
1. dispraise [v] - See also: dispraise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispraising
Literary usage of Dispraising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reader's Cabinet: Consisting of More Than a Hundred Papers, Original and by John Kingston (1809)
"... or meat, or drink ; neither spend your lime in praising or dispraising men ;
but let your discourse be of something noble, decent, grave, and serious; ..."
2. Evil eye in the Western Highlands by Robert Craig Maclagan (1902)
"PREVENTING BY dispraising THE expression of a blessing seems to be merely a
preventative, which of course is better than curative, if we accept the general ..."
3. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1863)
"... is not extraordinary in his kind : see also jju :] said in dispraising one.
... K :) said only in dispraising one : (AZ :) or it may mean he possesses ..."
4. The Aldus Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1909)
""By still dispraising praise valued with you"; omitted by Pope and others
as "foolish," but defended by Johnson:—"to vilify praise, ..."
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