deprecatory
adjUS /ˈdɛpɹɪkəˌtɔɹi/ · UK /ˈdɛpɹɪkət(ə)ɹi/
Etymology From deprecate + -ory.
1
Apologetic.
- Said the Duke, bowing over a deprecatory hand, “If there were to pass my window one tithe of them whose hearts have been lost to Miss Dobson, I should win no solace from that interminable parade.”1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC:
2
Disparaging.
3
Archaic Tending to avert evil by prayer.
- Derived terms
- deprecatorily, deprecatoriness, self-deprecatory
- Related terms
- deprecative