Huysmans may have been both sceptic and believer, but the dry fervour of the later books betrays a man who willingly humiliates and depreciates the intellect for the greater glory of God.
Machinery differs greatly in durability; well-made, substantial machinery depreciates about five per cent.
One depreciates, possibly is restored later and takes a high place, and again depreciates until finally it is thrown out of use.
Sokrates inferior to Protagoras in continuous speech 284 Sokrates depreciates the value of debates on the poets.
He depreciates the Sophists as much as the philosophers, and in fact rather more.
Side-note: Sokrates depreciates the value of debates on the poets.
When he depreciates them to you he depreciates me; when he quotes the opinion of Mr. Wallis or of any one else he is quoting it against me.
The manner in which Plato here depreciates astronomical observation is not easily reconcileable with his doctrine in the Timaeus.
To be himself immoral, and to contribute to corrupt the morals of those under him, involves the master who employs him in the guilt of sin, as well as depreciates the value of his property.
For if the inhabitants of such buildings are not filthy, degraded, and thievish to an extent that materially depreciates their value, it can only be because they are extraordinary examples of moral purity.
This gains some added color, but adds undesirable element, depreciates flavor and is especially inadvisable when the grind is sufficiently fine.
Drusius is extolled by all critics except Scaliger (Scaligerana Secunda), who seems to have conceived one of his personal prejudices against the Franeker professor, and depreciates his moral character.
Bouterwek depreciates it in rather more sweeping a manner than seems consistent with the admissions he afterwards makes.
If a man thinks meanly of himself, he can hardly in reason think much of his judgment; if he depreciates the value of his own work, he depreciates also the value of his praise.
Instantly the fiery saint, detecting the secret thought, rose from his prayer to repudiate the slight: "Brother, he whodepreciates the work depreciates the Author.
But we can hardly praise him when, in obedience to the authority of Homer, he depreciates diet, or approve of the inhuman spirit in which he would get rid of invalid and useless lives by leaving them to die.
We are disappointed to find that Plato, in the general condemnation which he passes on the practice of medicine prevailing in his own day, depreciates the effects of diet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depreciates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
