Marginalize vs Disparage - What's the difference?
marginalize | disparage |
To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit
(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.
As verbs the difference between marginalize and disparage
is that marginalize is to relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit while disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.As a noun disparage is
(obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.marginalize
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Alternative forms
* marginalise (mostly British)Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
*invisibilizedisparage
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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.