All 5 Uses
deprecate
in
A Passage to India
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- Fielding deprecated confidences, but Sir Gilbert insisted on imparting them;
Chpt 29 *deprecated = disapproved of
- Whatever she said produced a murmur of deprecation, varying into a murmur of concern when she dropped her pocket-handkerchief.†
Chpt 5
- She felt humiliated again, for she deprecated labels, and she felt too that there should have been another scene between her lover and herself at this point, something dramatic and lengthy.†
Chpt 8
- "Mr. Mahmoud Ali, this is not wise," implored the Nawab Bahadur: he knew that nothing was gained by attacking the English, who had fallen into their own pit and had better be left there; moreover, he had great possessions and deprecated anarchy.†
Chpt 25
- Godbole, who had never been known to tell anyone anything, smiled again, and said in deprecating tones: "Never be angry with me.†
Chpt 36
Definitions:
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(1)
(deprecate) to diminish or treat something as unimportant or of low quality; or to express disapproval
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The form, deprecating, is sometimes used as a short form of self-deprecating -- meaning to belittle oneself or one's own ideas. Deprecated is also used to describe a software or aspects of it as obsolete.