Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of depreciative
He has embodied a general system of depreciatives, out of which he extracts most 'strange contents.' I never yet heard him allow merit to man, woman or child;...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 285
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