discommend
Example Sentences
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"Nay, I cannot discommend you; for such a brisk maid as you should go handsome, or you will never get a sweetheart, though you think the time long."
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
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
Neither do I discommend the lofty style in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent; but nothing is truly sublime, that is not just and proper.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
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
