Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a crying down
  • noun clamorous condemnation

Etymologies

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decry +‎ -ial

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Examples

  • Disclaimer: The following interview is neither an endorsement nor decrial of The Cult of Cthulhu and/or Mr. Venger Satanis.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • Disclaimer: The following interview is neither an endorsement nor decrial of The Cult of Cthulhu and/or Mr. Venger Satanis.

    An Interview with Venger Satanis : The Lovecraft News Network 2010

  • Christ, which Francis received from the hand of the living God, some time after the revelation of the Rule, as a bull of Jesus Christ, by which that High Pontiff confirmed it; and Pope Nicholas III was of the same opinion, in his decrial.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

  • This holy doctor considers the impressions of the wounds of Jesus Christ, which Francis received from the hand of the living God, some time after the revelation of the Rule, as a bull of Jesus Christ, by which that High Pontiff confirmed it; and Pope Nicholas III was of the same opinion, in his decrial.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

  • Turgenev could not solve his problem; instead of sketching the relations between the 'fathers' and the 'children' he wrote a panegyric to the 'fathers' and a decrial against the 'children'; but he did not even understand the children; instead of a decrial it was nothing but a libel.

    Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • I should add that, for all of the decrial of "the internets" by our Clerical Baghdad Bob's, a group of some 15 clergy in this diocese had a lovely private FaceBook page.

    Stand Firm 2009

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