Meanings
adjectiveunpraised (comparative more unpraised, superlative most unpraised)
comparative more unpraised · superlative most unpraised
- Not praised.
The advocates of humanity are not yet become too numerous: but those who practise its divine precepts, however humble and unnoticed be their station, ought not to sink into obscurity, unrecorded and unpraised, with the vile monsters who deride misery and fatten on calamity.
1788, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
Origin
Translations
Greek ανεγκωμίαστος
- ανεγκωμίαστος (anegkomíastos)not praised
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