different between disparage vs blacken

English

Etymology

From Middle English disparage (noun), disparagen (verb), from Old French desparage (noun), desparagier (verb), from des- + parage (“equal rank, rank”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?pæ??d??/

Noun

disparage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […]

Translations

Verb

disparage (third-person singular simple present disparages, present participle disparaging, simple past and past participle disparaged)

1. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
   • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet

     those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious

   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.

3. To ridicule, mock, discredit. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

See also

• vilipend
• belittle
• denigrate
• excoriate

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French desparage; equivalent to dis- +? parage.

Alternative forms

• dysperage, disperage, desparage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?pa?ra?d?(?)/, /dis?parad?(?)/, /d?s-/

Noun

disparage (uncountable) (rare)

1. Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
2. Ignominy, shame; the state of lacking respect.

Descendants

• English: disparage

References

• “dispar??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

Etymology 2

From Old French desparagier.

Verb

disparage

1. Alternative form of disparagen.

English

Etymology

From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black +? -en (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blæk?n/
• Rhymes: -æk?n

Verb

blacken (third-person singular simple present blackens, present participle blackening, simple past and past participle blackened)

1. (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
2. (intransitive, ergative) To become black.

3. (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
4. To defame or sully.
5. (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.

Synonyms

• (make black): black, denigrate
• (make dirty): dirty, soil
• (defame): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish

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