discommend

Example Sentences

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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

The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct. 

From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

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

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

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

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