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Depreciate   /dɪprˈiʃiˌeɪt/   Listen
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Depreciate  v. t.  (past & past part. depreciated; pres. part. depreciating)  To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. "Which... some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate." "To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself."
Synonyms: To decry; disparage; traduce; lower; detract; underrate. See Decry.



Depreciate  v. i.  To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Depreciate" Quotes from Famous Books



... prisoner in the minds of the jury. In his eagerness to carry out this laudable design, the Quarterly Reviewer cannot even state the history of the doctrine of natural selection without an oblique and entirely unjustifiable attempt to depreciate Mr. Darwin. "To Mr. Darwin," says he, "and (through Mr. Wallace's reticence) to Mr. Darwin alone, is due the credit of having first brought it prominently forward and demonstrated its truth." No one can less desire than I do, to throw a doubt upon Mr. Wallace's originality, or to question ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... again, are we to cry down man for the sake of crying up nature? Why are we to depreciate the dweller that we may magnify the dwelling-place? Is not, man (to say the least) one of the works of God? Did not God make, both man and nature? And does not Revelation (which our author holds in so deep reverence) ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd

... I shall never hear you depreciate the constancy of men. Thured had better have married ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... practical, but less systematic form of this Socialism sought to depreciate every revolutionary movement in the eyes of the working class, by showing that no mere political reform but a change in the material conditions of existence in economical relations could be of any advantage ...
— Manifesto of the Communist Party • Karl Marx

... knowledge, and withal be a man of good character and judgment, before receiving this most desirable degree in American and European universities. With such a uniform standard, this degree will not likely depreciate in public esteem, but have, as all degrees should, a uniform value. A federation of colleges may help to attain ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker


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