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 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

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

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

This threat is to the fools, that squeam At every thing of good esteem; And that they may to taste pretend, Ev’n heaven itself will discommend.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)