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n. The act of deprecating.

n. A praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

n. Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.

n. An imprecation or curse.

n. The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented.

n. Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.

n. An imprecation or curse.

n. A strong expression of disapprobation; an expression of a low opinion.

n. The act of deprecating something, as harm or disapproval; counter-prayer or petition; earnest desire for exemption or deliverance.

n. Specifically

n. In litanies, a petition to be delivered from some evil, temporal or spiritual.

n. A praying for removal or prevention; entreaty or earnest desire for an averting or delaying: as, to urge reasons in deprecation of war or of a severe judgment; “deprecation of death,”

n. An imprecation; a curse.

n. a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster

n. the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)

"The best way to avoid deprecation is to drive fewer miles, says Ibara."

prayer    petition    orison    dispraise    disparagement   

precation    imprecation   

petitioning   

supplication    appraisement    contrition    remonstrance    reprimand    pleading    entreaty    exasperation    courtliness    periphrasis