discommend

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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

I do not discommend or derogate from those other studies; I should betray mine own ignorance and weakness should I do so; I only wish they might not altogether justle out and exclude this.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

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

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

Those need compassion whom you discommend, Not whom you praise.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

I passe not I how men affected be, Nor who commend, or discommend my verse; It pleaseth me if I my plaints rehearse, And in my lynes if shee my loue may see.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril