Definition of "deprecate"

deprecate

/ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated
1. (transitive) To belittle or express disapproval of.
  Quotations
  He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him; deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 150
  Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".
  2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 295
2. (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
  Quotations
  A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.
  2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex
3. (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
  Quotations
  And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.
  1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126
  […] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.
  1712, George Smalridge, A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedneſday, January the 16th, 1711/12, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18
4. (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.

Definition of "deprecate"

deprecate

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