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What does deprecate mean?

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Verb
  1. To belittle or express disapproval of.
  2. To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
  3. (archaic) To pray against.
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He seemed to deprecate the vigor of my retort and lifted a cautioning hand.
Since the law confers this public right, I deprecate any attempt artificially to restrict its scope.
Environmentalists generally deprecate the decline in urban density associated with suburbanization.
Why do you today deprecate the same that yesterday you induced to perdition?
This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
It gets him nowhere to pull down, to nag at rules, to deprecate authority, to pass judgment on policies of his firm.

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