Reflection vs Dispraise - What's the difference?
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The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
(senseid) Careful thought or consideration.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}
An implied criticism.
(label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
*:They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
*1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
*:Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
*1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:
*:He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.
