discommend
Example Sentences
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Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Neither do I discommend the lofty stile in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent; but nothing is truely sublime that is not just and proper.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus
Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert
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
There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than La Religieuse.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
