discommend

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

No, no, it is impossible; but your ladyship can't discommend his unwillingness to depart from his fee.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry

Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.