All 3 Uses of
depreciation
in
Middlemarch
- Fred gave up the fallacious hope of getting a genuine opinion; but on reflection he saw that Bambridge's depreciation and Horrock's silence were both virtually encouraging, and indicated that they thought better of the horse than they chose to say.†
Chpt 3 *
- Mother, please say that I am to go," urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl.†
Chpt 6
- But it would be unjust not to tell, that she never uttered a word in depreciation of Dorothea, keeping in religious remembrance the generosity which had come to her aid in the sharpest crisis of her life.†
Chpt Fin.
Definition:
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(depreciation) the decrease in the value of something -- especially due to its wearing out or getting old