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Another word for disparagement

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disparagement

n.

Detraction
depreciation, belittlement, backbiting; see lie 1.
Something that discredits
aspersion, censure, derision; see blame 1, objection 2, ridicule.

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Another word for disparagement

noun

The act or an instance of belittling:

belittlement, denigration, deprecation, depreciation, derogation, detraction, minimization. See attack, show

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Those traditions or doctrines which were most uncongenial to the modern world were placed in strong relief; and the disparagement of the individual intellect was extended to the disparagement of scientific research itself " (Wilfrid Ward, Life of W.
It would be difficult to draw any comparison between German and Italian humanists to the disparagement of the former.
The leading thought was God's absolute sovereignty in the work of redemption: that while it behoved God to create man holy, it was of His " good pleasure " and " mere and arbitrary grace " that any man was now made holy, and that God might deny this grace without any disparagement to any of His perfections.
It is no disparagement to point out that the recognition he obtained was due not only to his published work, but also to his success as a teacher.
As a term of disparagement and contempt the word is also used of persons, from the idea of wriggling or creeping on the ground, partly, too, perhaps, with a reminiscence of Genesis iii.

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