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disparage | dis |

As a noun disparage

is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

As a verb disparage

is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.

As a numeral dis is

ten.

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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    dis

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of disrespect.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (informal)

    • Noun

    (disses)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (disir)
  • Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
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  • * 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 67)

    • Etymology 3

    Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation of this.

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (slang, or, eye dialect) This.

    • Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (slang, or, eye dialect) This.

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