discommend
Example Sentences
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Tho' such myself, vile bards I discommend; Nay more, tho' gentle Damon is my friend.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young
The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct.
From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
No, no, it is impossible; but your ladyship can't discommend his unwillingness to depart from his fee.
From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding
Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard
Neither do I discommend the lofty stile in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent; but nothing is truely sublime that is not just and proper.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Theophilus Cibber
