discommend

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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.

No, no, it is impossible; but your ladyship can't discommend his unwillingness to depart from his fee.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry

Heaven forbid that I should discommend The gratis, charitable, jail-endeavor!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

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

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