Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to deteriorate; depreciate the value of.
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- verb To make
worse ; todeteriorate or toworsen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only later did it pejorate to mean illegitimate offspring.
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Slaves also pejorate the families that use them; the white children become proud, disgusted with labor, and, being educated in idleness, are rendered unfit to get
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"Pejorate," to make worse, is still an unusual and stilted word: Franklin in the first edition of the "Canada Pamphlet" in the "observations concerning the increase of mankind, etc," omitted in the second 'edition used the word in the sentence, "Slaves also pejorate the families that use them."
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"You do not appear to me to recognise the gravity of your situation, or you would be more careful not to pejorate the same by words which glance upon the purity of justice.
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"You do not appear to me to recognise the gravity of your situation, or you would be more careful not to pejorate the same by words which glance upon the purity of justice.
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"You do not appear to me to recognise the gravity of your situation, or you would be more careful not to pejorate the same by words which glance upon the purity of justice.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
whichbe commented on the word pejorate
To make worse; depreciate.
May 12, 2008
mtc commented on the word pejorate
The exact antonym is "meliorate."
July 26, 2012