discommend

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Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

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 Young, Edward

There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than La Religieuse.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

I passe not I how men affected be, Nor who commend, or discommend my verse; It pleaseth me if I my plaints rehearse, And in my lynes if shee my loue may see.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

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 Marsh, A.