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verb
Discommend  v. t.  
1.
To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. (R.) "By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others."
2.
To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one. "A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry."





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"Discommend" Quotes from Famous Books



... thyself, if possible. If thou art one of those critics in dressing, those extempores of fortune, who, having lost a relation and got an estate, in an instant set up for wit and every extravagance, thou'lt either praise or discommend this book, according to the dictates of some less foolish than thyself, perhaps of one of those who, being lodged at the sign of the box and dice, will know better things than to recommend to thee a work which bids ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


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