discommend
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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
Those need compassion whom you discommend, Not whom you praise.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
I do not discommend or derogate from those other studies; I should betray mine own ignorance and weakness should I do so; I only wish they might not altogether justle out and exclude this.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
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