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deprecate

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatindēprecātus,perfect active participle ofdēprecor(“to pray against (a present or impending evil) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger),rarely imprecate”), fromdē-(“off”) +‎precor(“to pray”).

Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/,/ˈdɛpɹəkeɪt/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation:dep‧re‧cate

Verb

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deprecate (third-person singular simple presentdeprecates,present participledeprecating,simple past and past participledeprecated)

(transitive) Toexpressdisapproval of, protest or plead against.
Theydeprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.
Shedeprecated any action which might disturb the peace.
- 1837,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, inEthel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page150:
  He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him;deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.
(transitive) Tobelittle,depreciate.
Hedeprecates any praise of his own merits.
- 2012, James Lambert, “BeyondHobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, inWorld Englishes‎^[1], page295:
  Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widelydeprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".
(transitive, chiefly computing) To declare somethingobsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
The 'bold' tag has beendeprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.
It is still supported but stronglydeprecated.
- 2003, Dave Evanset al.,Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex,→ISBN:
  Adeprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.
(archaic, transitive) Topray against.
- 1701,Nehemiah Grew,Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page126:
  And indeprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.
- 1712,George Smalridge,A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St.James’s onWedneſday,January the 16th, 1711/12, London: Jonah Bowyer, page18:
  […], though the Temporal Judgments which WeDeprecate, are not remov’d.
(archaic, transitive) Toregret deeply.

Usage notes

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Do not confuse withdepreciate(“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact thatAHD4 states thatdeprecate has almost completely supplanteddepreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.