discommend

Example Sentences

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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 Dryden, John

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

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.

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

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct. 

From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir