He next considers the problem of human sorrow and sin, and deprecates the absolute condemnation of the sinner, in language which anticipates that of "Fifine at the Fair.
He deprecatesthe folly of linking divine and human together on the strength of the short space which they may tread side by side, and the anthropomorphic spirit which subjects the one to the other by presenting the illimitable in human form.
The Lyric deprecatesthe solitude which united souls may enjoy, by a selfish or fastidious seclusion from the haunts of men.
He fartherdeprecates the disturbance of "those opinions which they have heard from the lawgiver respecting what is just and honourable".
B), deprecates and complains of this instantaneous condemnation without impartial hearing of argument on both sides.
But Sokrates requires from no man implicit trust: nay he deprecates it as dangerous.
Far from regarding hatred against the Sophists as a mark of virtue in Anytus, Sokrates deprecates it as unwarranted and as menacing to philosophy in all her manifestations.
Morse deprecates lack of spirit in New England and rejoices at Wellington's victories.
Elyot deprecates “cruel and yrous schoolmasters, by whom the wits of children be dulled, whereof we need no better author to witness, than daily experience.
He deprecates the putting of books into the hands of laici, who do not know one side from another.
Scaliger, however, deprecates so indolent a mode of study, and ascribes the decline of Greek learning to these unlucky double columns.
The writerdeprecates the impulse which leads judges, from a feeling that justice should be publicly administered, to throw wide the doors of every courtroom, irrespective of the subject-matter of the trial.
Resignation and shrinking blend in that cry, in which a heart conscious of evil confesses as well as implores, recognises the justice and yet deprecates the utmost severity of the blow.
In the Deutsches Museum for July, 1776, Sturz printed a poem entitled “Die Mode,” in which he treats of the slavery of fashion and in several stanzas deprecates the influence of Yorick.
Plato even glances at the necessity of a superhuman name-giver: though he deprecates the supposition generally, as a mere evasion or subterfuge, introduced to escape the confession of real ignorance.
It deprecatesthe idea that any force or faculty of human life be regarded as unholy and therefore be suppressed.
Therefore Judaism deprecatesevery attempt to present a single individual, be he ever so noble or wise, as the ideal of all human perfection, as a perfect man, free from fault or blemish.
Our preacher is no ranter, nor does he shut the door of mercy on entertainments; all he deprecates is their excess.
Even the victim herself, if she be not pummelled to death, frequently deprecates such an interference with the dignity and the rights of her owner.
In speaking of the education of his son, he deprecates the learning by rote of hymns.
He deprecates the appointment of a Commission to enquire into the Universities, because it will deter intending benefactors from effecting their munificent intentions.
Sometimes the Mikado deprecates the wrath of deities whose services had been vitiated by ritual impurity, or whose shrines had suffered from neglect or injury.
He deprecates spitting into it (which causes ophthalmia) or defiling it, and says that women who sweep it out daily and make offering to the God of a light on the last day of each month will be free from diseases below the girdle.
If the idealist fears and deprecates any theory of his own origin and function, he is only obeying the instinct of self-preservation; for he knows very well that his past will not bear examination.
Every noble loafer about my person seems anxious to have Osman continually employed in contributing to my comfort; Mohammed Ahzim Khan even deprecates the independence displayed in lacing up my own shoes.
Whereas, every European travellerdeprecates the change from their native costume to our own.
The English mind is tender and temperate: it deprecates scorn.
He deprecates his ability to write the life of the empress, to do which either Cicero would have to be recalled from Orcus or the presbyter Hieronymos from heaven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deprecates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
