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Definition of Depreciatory
1. Adjective. Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value. "Depreciatory effects on prices"
Similar to: Decreasing
Derivative terms: Depreciate, Depreciate, Depreciate, Depreciate
2. Adjective. Tending to diminish or disparage. "A slighting remark"
Similar to: Uncomplimentary
Derivative terms: Deprecate, Deprecate, Depreciate, Depreciate
Definition of Depreciatory
1. a. Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.
Definition of Depreciatory
1. Adjective. pertaining to depreciation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depreciatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depreciatory
Literary usage of Depreciatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"depreciatory is a 19th-century word that regularly means “disparaging”: a
depreciatory term conveying the notion of a shallow critic or trifling virtuoso ..."
2. James Mill: A Biography by Alexander Bain (1882)
"I will finally advert to some recorded sayings of Bentham, which are in the
highest degree depreciatory of Mill's motives as a democratic politician. ..."
3. The Conveyancing Acts, the Vendor and Purchaser Act, and the Trustee Acts by Aubrey St. John Clerke, Thomas Brett (1897)
"... be ^pga^ed by any beneficiary upon the ground that any of thg conditions
subject to which the sale was made may have been unnecessarily depreciatory, ..."
4. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1864)
"(9) A good many words in English, whose etymology neither demands nor suggests
any such sense, have acquired in usage a permanently depreciatory or evil ..."
5. A Compendium of the Law and Practice of Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate by Joseph Henry Dart (1851)
"... e. g: the actual(y) or imminent(s) death p^r\y.lho of a prior life tenant.
marks, Arc., (4.) As to depreciatory ..."
6. Materials for a Study of Spenser's Theory of Fine Art by Ida Langdon, Edmund Spenser (1911)
"4 Hymne 104-107. See also FORM (1) and (2), IMITATION. FAERIE QUEENE (1) Spenser's
depreciatory expressions in regard to the Faerie Queene. ..."
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