Both Uses of
depreciation
in
Great Expectations
- There was an air of toleration or depreciation about his utterance of these words that rather depressed me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at Barnard's Inn.†
p. 180.7
- In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.†
p. 226.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(depreciation) the decrease in the value of something -- especially due to its wearing out or getting old
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Archaic Usage: At one time, depreciation was also commonly used to mean belittle, but today deprecation has replaced that usage.