# disparage
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English disparage (noun), disparagen (verb), from Old French desparage (noun), desparagier (verb), from des- (“dis-”) + parage (“equal rank, rank”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪsˈpæɹɪd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

disparage (uncountable)
* (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […]

#### Translations
### Verb

disparage (third-person singular simple present disparages, present participle disparaging, simple past and past participle disparaged)
* (obsolete) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
** 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC:Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
** August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
    those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
** 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
* To ridicule, mock, discredit.
** 1878, Mrs. Forrest-Grant, Riversdale Court: A Novel:Had he disparaged my personal appearance I should in all probability have laughed at him with lively indifference

#### Derived terms

* disparageable
* disparagement
* disparager
* disparaging
* undisparaged

#### Translations

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#### See also

* vilipend
* belittle
* denigrate
* excoriate

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old French desparage; equivalent to dis- +‎ parage.

#### Alternative forms

* dysperage, disperage, desparage

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /disˌpaˈraːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /disˈparad͡ʒ(ə)/, /dɛs-/

#### Noun

disparage (uncountable) (rare)
* Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
* Ignominy, shame; the state of lacking respect.

##### Descendants

* English: disparage

##### References

* “disparāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

### Etymology 2

From Old French desparagier.

#### Verb

disparage
* Alternative form of disparagen.