deprecating

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Deprecating his kind of education, open minded he anxiously awaited the privilege of associating with many of the leading men of the State.

From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron

Deprecating passion of any kind, Demosthenes points out the real question at issue.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

Deprecating partial and occasional injustice to them on the part of individuals, it has shrewdly deemed it lawful to plunder them by wholesale, continually.

From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by Apess, William

Deprecating the supposition that an authoritative sanction was given by the ceremony to the current ideas concerning organic evolution, he said that "science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

Deprecating the outward symbols of sovereignty, he was satisfied with the modest powers of a consul or a tribunus plebis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various