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Condemn vs Disparage - What's the difference?

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Disparage is a synonym of condemn.



As verbs the difference between condemn and disparage

is that condemn is to confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon while disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.

As a noun disparage is

inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

condemn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
  • To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  • The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
  • To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
  • The president condemns the terrorist.
    The president condemns the terrorist attacks.
  • To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  • To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
  • To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  • (legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
  • Synonyms

    * damn * (to pronounce guilty) convict

    Antonyms

    * save * (to pronounce guilty) acquit

    disparage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].

    Verb

    (disparag)
  • To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
  • To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
  • * Bishop Atterbury
  • those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
  • * Milton
  • Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
  • To ridicule, mock, discredit.
  • See also

    * vilipend * belittle * denigrate * excoriate