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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpɹɪkeɪt/, /ˈdɛpɹəkeɪt/
  • ハイフネーション: dep‧re‧cate

動詞

deprecate (三人称単数 現在形 deprecates, 現在分詞 deprecating, 過去形および過去分詞形 deprecated)

1. (transitive) To belittle or express disapproval of.

   He deprecates any praise of his own merits.

   They deprecated the attempt to deny aid to homeless people.

   She deprecated any action which might disturb the peace.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150:

     He spoke of Ethel continually; entreated her to forgive him; deprecated her coldness; and implored her to retract her refusal.

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[1], page 295:

     Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".

2. (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.

   The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.

   It is still supported but strongly deprecated.

   • 2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, →ISBN:

     A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.

3. (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126:

     And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Juſtice in chaſtizing, as well as Clemency, in ſparing the Guilty.

   • 1712, George Smalridge, A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedneſday, January the 16th, 1711/12, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18:

     […] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.

4. (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.

使用する際の注意点

• Do not confuse with depreciate (“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact that AHD4 states that deprecate has almost completely supplanted depreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.

派生語

• self-deprecating

関連する語

• deprecation

参考

• discontinue

Further reading

• “deprecate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “deprecate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• deprecate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

動詞

dēprecāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēprecō