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Word Meanings - MISTREATMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wrong treatment.

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  • COMMENDATOR
    One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
  • REPROACHER
    One who reproaches.
  • APPROVEDLY
    So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
  • COMMENDER
    One who commends or praises.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • OPPROBRIUM
    Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
  • PRAISER
    1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
  • INVECTIVE
    Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
  • COMMENDATARY
    One who holds a living in commendam.
  • APPROVEMENT
    a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now
  • RIBALDRY
    The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay.
  • APPROVE
    approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton. 2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
  • COMMENDATION
    A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of
  • SCURRILITY
    1. The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility. Shak. 2. That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language;
  • INVECTIVELY
    In an invective manner. Shak.
  • REPROACH
    LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. I thought your
  • PRAISEMENT
    Appraisement.
  • VITUPERATION
    The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame. When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. Donne.
  • REPROACHFUL
    1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Syn.
  • PRAISELESS
    Without praise or approbation.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • DISAPPROVE
    1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
  • OVERPRAISE
    To praise excessively or unduly.
  • RECOMMENDATORY
    Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
  • SUPERPRAISE
    To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
  • RECOMMENDER
    One who recommends.
  • DISCOMMENDER
    One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.

 

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