And yet I have a word to say which may seem to be depreciatory of legislators.
Occurring chiefly in such phrases as arch enemy, arch heretic, arch hypocrite, arch rogue, it acquired a depreciatory sense, which has now become so weakened that archness is not altogether an unpleasing attribute.
This Italian word has passed into French and German, displacing the older cognates soudard and Söldner, which now have a depreciatory sense.
We feel blame or disapprobation more acutely than approbation; and consequently depreciatory remarks or ridicule, whether of our appearance or conduct, cause us to blush much more readily than does praise.
Jerome, besides passing a depreciatory judgment upon his literary productions, contested his doctrine as an expounder of the Origenist heresy (Ep.
This is an insignificant thing without the auxiliary mental joy of science: the nearer mountains are all more beautiful and fuller of expression, but "not nearly so high," adds that absurd depreciatory science.
Only the ill-educated and the arrogant will at once find a depreciatory force in this word.
He who follows a philosophy or a genre of art to the end of its career and beyond, understands from inner experience why the masters and disciples who come after have so often turned, with a depreciatory gesture, into a new groove.
We feel blame or disapprobation more acutely than approbation; and consequently depreciatory remarks or ridicule, whether of our appearance or conduct, causes us to blush much more readily than does praise.
A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.
I half suspect he is a gentleman who does not take a depreciatory estimate of either himself or his prospects.
The little mimicries of Albert Jekyl, as he described Mrs. Ricketts, the few depreciatoryremarks of Lady Hester concerning her, would have outweighed her worth had her character been a cornucopia of goodness.
Mademoiselle Celestiue, who, as she followed the rest into the humble chamber, was bestowing a most depreciatory glance upon the place, the furniture, and the people.
Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.
Mannish is a depreciatory word referring to the mimicry or parade of some superficial qualities of manhood; as, a mannish boy or woman.
Thar they are,' he murmured, with a depreciatory gesture.
These, however, have no doctrinal significance; in fact the same Tertullian expressed himself in a depreciatory way about Mary in de carne 7.
Footnote 483: Marcion, as is well known, went still further in his depreciatory judgment of the world, and therefore recognised in the redemption through Christ a pure act of grace.
When the place of interest in education is spoken of in a depreciatory way, it will be found that the second of the meanings mentioned is first exaggerated and then isolated.
If this be depreciatory, it is depreciatory to say that greater honor is due to him who manifests the skill and fertility of resource of a commander than to him who exhibits the mere valor of a soldier.
It is an adjective, applied in a depreciatory manner to the Gueguence.
The adjective sesule, constantly applied to Gueguence, evidently in a depreciatory manner, is probably from the Nah.
Ilminsky as accepting it unquestioned, because it is covered by his depreciatory remarks, made in his preface, on Kehr's text.
From the former we have the eulogistic, from the latter the depreciatory fashionable novels; these make us familiar with the celestial attributes of countesses-dowager, and the amiability of their pugs.
Churchill took a seat near him and began to annoy him with depreciatory remarks about Grayson, not spoken to Harley in particular, but to the wide world.
I remember how indignant I felt, as a boy, at reading some depreciatory criticism of the Waverley Novels.
I never can remember names or faces," and similar negative, depreciatory remarks.
A really brainy professional man whom I meet quite often is a striking example of the baneful effects of the negative self-depreciatory thought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depreciatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
