Disparage vs Revile - What's the difference?
disparage | revile |
(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 attack (someone) with abusive language.
* Bible, 1 Peter ii. 23
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) reproach; reviling
In obsolete terms the difference between disparage and revile
is that disparage is inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior while revile is reproach; reviling.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
* * *revile
English
Verb
(en-verb)- who, when he was reviled , reviled not again
- And did not she herself revile me there?
Synonyms
* reproach * scold * vilify * vituperateNoun
(-)- The gracious Judge, without revile , replied. — Milton.