Disparage vs Placate - What's the difference?
disparage | placate |
(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 calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
As verbs the difference between disparage and placate
is that disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor while placate is to calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.As a noun disparage
is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.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.