discommend

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ commend.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪskəˈmɛnd/

Verb

discommend (third-person singular simple present discommends, present participle discommending, simple past and past participle discommended)

  2. (now rare) To show disapproval of (something or someone), to find fault with.
    Antonyms: commend, praise
  4. (now rare) To speak dissuasively of (something or someone), to advise against.
    Antonyms: recommend, endorse, encourage, support
    Near-synonyms: disrecommend, unrecommend (rare); deprecate, discourage, pooh-pooh
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.218:
      Savonarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth Bruerinus […], calling it a filthy beast, and rammish […].

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