discommend
Example Sentences
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Some vse to bare trees rootes in Winter, to stay the setting til hotter seasons, which I discommend, because, 1.
From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by William Lawson
Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
From Victories of Love by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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
Heaven forbid that I should discommend The gratis, charitable, jail-endeavor!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
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
