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Disparage vs Chauvinist - What's the difference?

disparage | chauvinist |

As nouns the difference between disparage and chauvinist

is that disparage is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior while chauvinist is chauvinist.

As a verb disparage

is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.

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

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    chauvinist

    English

    (Chauvinism)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (pejorative) chauvinistic.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A chauvinistic person.