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dispraise

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈspɹeɪz/Part of speech nounSorted adeiiprssStarts with DEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of speaking contemptuously of

Word origin

From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.

Used in a sentence

  • They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
  • Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
  • "What," thought Edward, "the poet says in praise of one beauty, I say in dispraise of another: 'Her eyes, like suns, the rash beholder strike, But, like the sun, they shine on all alike.'

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