# deprecate
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēprecātus, perfect active participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from dē- (“off”) +‎ precor (“to pray”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/, /ˈdɛpɹəkeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: dep‧re‧cate

### Verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)
* (transitive) To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
    They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.
    She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace.
** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150:He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him; deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.
* (transitive) To belittle, depreciate.
    He deprecates any praise of his own merits.
** 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 295:Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".
* (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
    The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.
    It is still supported but strongly deprecated.
** 2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, →ISBN:A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.
* (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
** 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126:And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.
** 1712, George Smalridge, A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedneſday, January the 16th, 1711/12, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18:[…] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.
* (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.

#### Usage notes

* Do not confuse with depreciate (“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact that AHD4 states that deprecate has almost completely supplanted depreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.

#### Derived terms

* deprecatory
* self-deprecate

#### Related terms

* deprecation

#### See also

* discontinue

### Further reading

* “deprecate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “deprecate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “deprecate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Italian
### Verb

deprecate
* second-person plural present and imperative of deprecare

## Latin
### Verb

dēprecāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of dēprecō

## Spanish
### Verb

deprecate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of deprecar combined with te