Decury vs Decry - What's the difference?
decury | decry |
(historical) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.
*{{quote-book, year=1904, author=John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, And William Jackson Brodribb, title=Roman History, Books I-III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Accordingly, the hundred senators divided the government among themselves, ten decuries being formed, and the individual members who were to have the chief direction of affairs being chosen into each decury . }}
*{{quote-book, year=1760, author=Robert Kerr, title=A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=If one, two, or more of a decury proceed bravely to battle, and the rest do not follow, the cowards are slain. }}
(Webster 1913)
To denounce as harmful.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 99:
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:
To blame for ills.
As a noun decury
is (historical) a set or squad of ten men under a decurion.As a verb decry is
to denounce as harmful.decury
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(en-verb)- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
- While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.
