Disparage vs Accumulate - What's the difference?
disparage | accumulate |
(obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
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
* Milton
To ridicule, mock, discredit.
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
As verbs the difference between disparage and accumulate
is that disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor while accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.As a noun disparage
is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.As an adjective accumulate is
(poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.disparage
English
Noun
(-)- 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)- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
See also
* vilipend * belittle * denigrate * excoriateExternal links
* * *accumulate
English
Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
