Word Meanings - DISCOMMEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor. 2. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any

Additional info about word: DISCOMMEND

1. To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. Spenser. By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor. 2. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. Pepys.

Related words: (words related to DISCOMMEND)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• DISAPPROBATION
  The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.
• COMMENDATARY
  One who holds a living in commendam.
• FAVOREDNESS
  Appearance.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• COMMENDATION
  A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of
• DISCOMMENDER
  One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• UNMENTIONABLES
  The breeches; trousers.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.