different between condemn vs deprecate

English

Etymology

From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemn?re (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damn?re (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?d?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

condemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)

1. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

   The president condemned the terrorists.
2. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
3. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
4. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

5. (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
6. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
7. To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
8. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
9. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

Synonyms

• damn
• (to pronounce guilty): convict

Antonyms

• save
• (to pronounce guilty): acquit

Related terms

• condemnable
• condemnation

Translations

Further reading

• condemn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• condemn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• condemn at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Latin d?prec?tus, past participle of d?prec?r? (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from d? (“off”) + prec?r? (“to pray”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p??ke?t/, /?d?p??ke?t/
• Hyphenation: dep?re?cate

Verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)

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

2. (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
   • 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 Ju?tice in cha?tizing, as well as Clemency, in ?paring the Guilty.

   • 1712, George Smalridge, “A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedne?day, 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.

Usage notes

• 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.

Derived terms

• self-deprecating

Related terms

• deprecation

Translations

Further reading

• deprecate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deprecate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deprecate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

deprecate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of deprecare

Latin

Verb

d?prec?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?prec?