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Definition of Dispraised
1. dispraise [v] - See also: dispraise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispraised
Literary usage of Dispraised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentary Upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans by Jean Calvin (1844)
"reason is, that if the liberty purchased unto us by Christ be good, we ought to
do our endeavour that it be not evil spoken of, and worthily dispraised of ..."
2. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"538 You hear So-and-so dispraised for some bad quality, eg, for being stingy,
dogmatic, dull, talkative, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... that either that Gardner is too blame which planteth his garden full of fragrant
flowers, neither that planter be dispraised which soweth all his beds ..."
4. The Spider and the Fly: Together with an Attributed Interlude Entitled by John Heywood (1908)
"... But he ought to be dispraised the more Because his ancestors have showed him
before [Bir A precedent of gentleness and virtue, Which good example he ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... of fragrant flowers, neither that planter he dispraised which soweth all his
heds with ... of these posies that maie make me praised or dispraised for ..."
6. Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson (1886)
"Truly, the sheriff's language seems hardly too strong, when he says that none
but fools dispraised his spectacle. These secular shows never attained the ..."
7. England's Helicon: A Collection of Lyrical and Pastoral Poems: Published in 1600 by A. B., John Bodenham (1887)
"... and so double, That with great reason he must be dispraised ; Love in the end
is such a jarring passion, That none should trust unto his peevish fashion ..."
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